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Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?)
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Alfred Stevens
Exhibition history
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’œuvre d’Alfred Stevens, February 6–27, 1900, cat. 127. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, April 1945, no cat.
Publications
Hans Vollmer, “Stevens, Alfred,” in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 32 (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1938), p. 25. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 441. Mary Mathews Gedo, Monet and his Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist's Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), p. 44 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)
- Date
- c. 1867
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 55.5 × 43.2 cm (21 7/8 × 17 in.); Framed: 68 × 56.5 × 7 cm (26 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- Belgium
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1178
Provenance
Possibly Émile Monteaux, Paris [lent to Paris 1900]. Henry Le Rey et Fils, Paris [according to a red wax stamp on the verso of the painting]. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1911; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, June 23, 1911 [according to the bill of sale, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
More by Alfred Stevens in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000771
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