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Alfred Stevens - After the Ball [1874] Women In White, Alfred Stevens, White Dresses, Dresses, White, Art

This painting, also known as Confidence, is one of several by Stevens (Belgian, Blandford Forum, England, 1823 - London, 1906) 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…

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