Alfred Stevens

Japanese: ステバンス - すてばんす（英語表記）Alfred Stevens

1823‐1906
Belgian painter. Born in Brussels, he studied under David's student FJ Navez there, and in 1844 went to Paris, where he spent most of his life. His works depicting the lives of the wealthy classes of Paris during the Second Empire, especially women dressed in fashionable clothing, were extremely popular due to his bourgeois-friendly contemporary subject matter and his outstanding ability to capture the texture of luxurious furnishings and costumes with delicate touches and refined colors in relatively small paintings. Although he was a painter of the so-called Salon school, he is known for his friendships with innovative painters of the Paris art world at the time, such as Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, and Degas, and is considered one of the first painters to take an interest in Japonism.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1823‐1906
ベルギーの画家。ブリュッセルに生まれ，同地でダビッドの弟子ナベズF.J.Navezに師事，1844年パリに赴き，以後生涯を通じほとんどパリで活動した。第二帝政期のパリの富裕階級の生活，とりわけ流行の衣装に身を包んだ婦人たちを描いた作品は，ブルジョア好みの当世風の主題と，比較的小さな画面の中に繊細なタッチと洗練された色調で豪華な調度や衣装の材質感をとらえる卓抜な手腕のゆえに，非常な人気を博した。いわゆるサロン(官展)派の画家であるが，ドラクロア，クールベ，マネ，ドガら当時のパリ画壇の革新的な画家たちとの交遊が知られており，ジャポニスムに関心をもった最初の画家の一人ともされる。

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