JOHN MITCHELL

Alfred Stevens
Brussels 1823 - Paris 1906
7
La Villa des Falaises à Sainte-Adresse
oil on panel, 25¼ x 36¼in (64 x 92cm)
signed; also signed with initials and
dated ‘Havre septembre 1884’ on
reverse with original ornate gilded
composition frame
PrOvenAnCe
francois vander donckt, Brussels
(commissioned from the artist in 1884);
with Henri le roy et fils, Brussels by 1886;
Jean dieterle, Paris, 1928;
M. & Mme. Jules van Hulst, Brussels, by 1935;
their sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels,
8 October 1958;
Sotheby’s new York, 24 October 1996, lot 187, $442,000;
Private collection, United States.
exHIBIted
Brussels, Exposition Alfred Stevens, 1895, no.38;
Mulhouse, Exposition de la Société des Amis des Arts, 1899;
Paris, ecole des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’oeuvre d’Alfred
Stevens, 1900, no.64;
new York, Adam Williams fine Art, new York, Alfred
Stevens – A Loan Exhibition, organised by John Mitchell
fine Painitngs, 2004, no. 20;
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,
May-August 2009 and Amsterdam, van Gogh Museum,
September 2009-January 2010, Alfred Stevens 1823-1906,
no.14.
lIterAtUre
Gustave van Zype, Les Frères Stevens, Brussels,
1936, no.51, p.102;
Peter Mitchell, Alfred Stevens 1823-1906, london,
2004, published on the occasion of the loan exhibition
in new York, pp. 17 and 56-7;
Christiane lefebvre, Alfred Stevens 1823-1906, Paris,
2006, pp. 108-110, fig. 122;
d. Marechal, d. derrey-Capon, S. de Bodt et alia, Alfred
Stevens 1823-1906, Brussels, 2009, (catalogue for the
Brussels-Amsterdam exhibition), p.44 (illus.) and p.199.