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| After the Ball |
Artist:Alfred Stevens (Belgian, Brussels 1823–1906 Paris)
Date:1874
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:37 3/4 x 27 1/8 in. (95.9 x 68.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Estate of Marie L. Russell, 1946
This painting, also known as Confidence, is one of several by Stevens to treat the theme of consolation. As in his other works from the 1870s, here the anecdotal content of a letter containing distressing news asserts itself in a glimpse of the life of fashionable Parisian women in their elegant interiors. Stevens's subject matter and his meticulous attention to contemporary dress and decor elicited analogies to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art; in fact, one critic called him the Gerard ter Borch of France.
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