ALFRED STEVENS (Brussels 1823 – Paris 1906)

“Avant Le Spectacle” (aka ‘Waiting for the Carriage’)

1870-1875
Signed lower left,   ‘AStevens’
Oil on Canvas
26 ½ x 19 ¾ inches (67.3 x 50.2 cm)

Provenance:

Van der Donckt, ca. 1876

Forbes, London, 1900

LeRoy et Cie, Paris

James S. Inglis, New York, (sold American Art Galleries, 9-10 March 1910, no 116 [ill],

$4,000; measurements incorrect]

Walter Fearon, New York

R.B. Angus, Montreal, (by 1912)   (Richard.B. Angus - born in Bathgate, Scotland in 1831, died in Montreal 1922 - was one of the founders of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibitions:
“L’oeuvre d’Alfred Stevens” Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1900, Paris #55

Inaugural Exhibition, 1912, Art Association of Montreal (today Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)  #164

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1960, no.53  

Literature:
Janet M. Brooke, “Discerning  Tastes: Montreal Collectors 1880-1920”, 1989, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, p.230, #1151

Certificate from the Comité Alfred Stevens in Paris