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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.99
People
Alfred Stevens, Belgian (Brussels 1823 - 1906 Paris)
Title
Seascape
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Sunset at Sea after a Storm
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1880-c. 1906
Culture
Belgian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230311

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
33.2 x 24.6 cm (13 1/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
frame: 49.5 x 41.9 x 6.6 cm (19 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: A. Stevens

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop through Martin Birnbaum, Paris, 1934; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.99
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 130; repr. as no. 195
  • Ivan Gaskell, "Being True to Rubens", Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens: the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, ed. Anna Knaap and Michael Putnam, Harvey Miller Publishers (London, 2013), pp. 241-260, pp. 247, 248, repr. p. 249 as fig. 5

Exhibition History

  • Calming the Tempest with Peter Paul Rubens, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/22/2001 - 03/17/2002

Verification Level

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