Palm Sunday. Alfred Stevens
An elegantly dressed young lady is placing a sprig of box behind the frame of her mother's portrait hanging on the bedroom wall. Another bough, lying on her cloak, is intended for the adjacent miniature, presumably a portrait of her father. This picture is a variant of the more elaborate "Les amours éternelles," formerly in the collection of Robert Hoe, Sr., of New York. In the Hoe painting, a dark rather than fair-haired model, still wearing her cloak, throws a kiss in the direction of her mother's portrait while placing the greenery above it. The Hoe picture also differs in the addition of a Persian cat arching its back in the foreground.
circa 1862
oil on panel
Height: 34.2 cm (13.5 in). Width: 26 cm (10.2 in).
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 37.141
Place of creation France
Object history
William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown]
1894: inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history
Alfred Stevens. The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal. 1977-1978.
Salute to Belgium, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1980 Commons-logo.svg
Credit line Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1878
Inscriptions [Signature] At lower right: A Stevens
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