Alfred Stevens
Belgian, 1823–1906
Woman in White
c. 1872
This small, rapidly painted study includes few precise details, yet the painting’s dramatic mood hints at the possibility of a narrative. The young woman, her face in shadow, is dressed in white and wears a cross around her neck. Her expression and her clasped hands suggest a moment of intense emotion and perhaps anxious prayer.
| Medium | oil on laminate cardboard |
| Dimensions | 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (32.4 x 24.5 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1028 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Alfred Stevens, Woman in White, c. 1872, oil on laminate cardboard. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1028
Select Bibliography
Interventions: Griselda Pollock Looks at Alfred Stevens, Oct. 21, 2000-April 8, 2001. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2000. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
EUROPEAN PAINTINGS CATALOGUE ENTRY
Provenance
Ichabod T. Williams, New York (d. 1899, his sale, American Art Association Galleries, New York, 3–4 Feb. 1915, no. 12); [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 30 Apr. 1926]; Robert Sterling Clark (1926–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
