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                                    PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
                            
                            Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) 
                            The Contented Mother
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                                            Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) 
The Contented Mother
signed 'Alfred Stevens' (lower right)
oil on panel
25½ x 15¾ in. (65 x 40 cm.)
Painted in 1872.
                                        
                                    The Contented Mother
signed 'Alfred Stevens' (lower right)
oil on panel
25½ x 15¾ in. (65 x 40 cm.)
Painted in 1872.
Provenance
                                        
                                            Collection F. Vander Donckt, Sainte-Adresse (1879).
Anonymous sale, Drouot, Paris, 18 June 1887, lot 51.
with the Gallery Emile Clarembaux, Brussels.
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit/J. & A. Le Roy Frères, Brussels, 22-23 March 1911, lot 44.
Acquired at the above sale by Monsieur Girard, Paris.
Collection Peeters, Olne.
Anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Wien, 20 April 2010, lot 56.
                                        
                                    Anonymous sale, Drouot, Paris, 18 June 1887, lot 51.
with the Gallery Emile Clarembaux, Brussels.
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit/J. & A. Le Roy Frères, Brussels, 22-23 March 1911, lot 44.
Acquired at the above sale by Monsieur Girard, Paris.
Collection Peeters, Olne.
Anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Wien, 20 April 2010, lot 56.
Literature
                                        
                                            G. Van Zype, Les Frères Stevens, Brussels, 1936, no. 233. C. Lefebvre, Alfred Stevens 1823-1906, Paris, 2006, p. 60, no. 53 and p. 62 (illustrated). 
                                        
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