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  Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)

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  On the beach

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  52,5 x 65 cm

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  Oil on canvas

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  After a period marked by the influence of Japanese prints, Stevens turned towards coastal and marine scenes, referring to Impressionism. This creative phase corresponds to the painter's move to Menton on the Mediterranean coast, near the Italian border. He creates compositions in a free style, close to the work of Eugène Boudin or Johan Barthold Jongkind. The painting "On the Beach", where he paints an elegant woman next to the sea, observing the horizon, is surely part of this last period of the artist's career. In the 1890s he abandoned painting due to health problems. He was the first living artist to obtain a monographic exhibition at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1900.