A Girl in Front of the Mirror
Alfred Stevens (1823 - 1906), c. 1875-1880
oil on canvas, 126 cm x 67 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (this work is part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (Nederlands Kunstbezit-collectie) consisting of works recovered from Germany after World War II and held in trust by the Dutch State. The work is on loan to the Van Gogh Museum)
- Object number
- s0533N2012
- Dimensions
- 126 cm x 67 cm, 138 cm x 79 cm, 5 cm
- Provenance
- Jochems, Wassenaar; sold by Jochems to Kunsthandel d'Audretsch, The Hague; sold by Kunsthandel d'Audretsch to Hans Rudolph, Berlin for DEM 22.000, April 1943; sold by Hans Rudolph to Sonderauftrag Linz, Dresden (Gemäldegalerie Dresden) for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz for DEM 30.000, 26 December 1943; confiscated by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section at Aussee and placed in the Central Collecting Point, München, 15 July 1945; transferred by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section to the Netherlands Art Property Foundation (SNK), Amsterdam, 3 June 1947; transferred to the State of the Netherlands; on long-term loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, from 17 July 1991, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994; on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, from 2 July 2012.
- artist
- Alfred Stevens
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (this work is part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (Nederlands Kunstbezit-collectie) consisting of works recovered from Germany after World War II and held in trust by the Dutch State. The work is on loan to the Van Gogh Museum)
Giverny, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Brussels, an Impressionist Capital, 11 July-31 October 2014
Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Alfred Stevens, 8 May-23 August 2009
Leeuwarden, Fries Museum, Interieur met dame, 9 June-8 September 2002
The Hague, Museum Mesdag, Interieur met dame, 23 November 2001-3 March 2002
Rüger, Axel, Roberts-Jones, P., Draguet, Michel, Derrey-Capon, D., Alfred Stevens: 1823-1906, Brussel- Parijs, Brussel, 2009, p. 34, 90-91, 201
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Bode, U., Kleinmann, U., Paris belle époque : 1880-1914, Recklinghausen, 1994, p. 162, 165, 412
Leeuw, Ronald de, Van Gogh Museum : schilderijen en pastels, Zwolle, 1993, p. 36
Haas, R. de, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst = The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts The Hague : old master paintings : an illustrated summary catalogue, Zwolle, 1992, p. 283
Van Gogh Museum : jaarverslag 1991, Amsterdam, 1992, p. 23
Leeuw, Ronald de, Aanwinsten/Acquisitions, Zwolle, 1991, p. 74