Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?)

1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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.

• 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.).

At the Railway Station

Art Institute of Chicago

The Corner of the Balcony

Art Institute of Chicago

Alfred Stevens

Art Institute of Chicago

Sketches of Putti (recto); Study for Ornament (verso)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman with Book (recto); Sketches of Male Figure (verso)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flying Figure

Art Institute of Chicago

Decorative Design with Putti and Griffins

Art Institute of Chicago

"The London & York Royal Mail Coach"

Art Institute of Chicago

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