#alfred stevens

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'after the ball,' oil on canvas, dimensions: 95.9 x 68.9 cm; alfred stevens, belgian c. 1874.

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Ophélie (Ophelia) (1887) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823 – 1906), signed and dated 'A Stevens./ 87.' (lower left), oil on canvas, 79 x 47½ in. (200.6 x 120.6 cm.), Private Collection

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Archaic Words: Colours

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Adarnech - colour like gold

Albyn - white

Argentine - silver

Ashied - made white

Aureat - golden

Bicollede - blackened

Blackbrown - brunette

Blewing - blue paint

Bleye - blue

Brune - brown

Camet - silver

Ende - a blue colour

Falwe - yellow

Florrey - a blue dye

Gaudy green - a light green colour

Ginger - a pale red colour

Gold-hewen - of a golden colour

Gridelin - a sort of colour composed of white and red

Grisard - grey

Grizle - a darkish grey

Inde - azure-coloured

Minim - a kind of brown tawny colour

Parvenke - a pink

Pear-coloured - red

Purpuring - having a purple colour

Sangronie - blood-red colour

Shay - a light colour

True blue - the best blue colour

Tuly - a kind of red or scarlet colour

Umber - a sort of brown colour

Vermaile - red

Virent - green, unfaded

Watchet - a pale blue colour

Whity brown - a pale dusky brown

Yvor - ivory

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Alfred Stevens - "News from Afar"

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Will you go out with me, Fido by Alfred Stevens (1859)

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Alfred Stevens, Portrait de femme, c.1880

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Alfred Stevens 'The Bath' 1867

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Allegory of the Night (1880 / Oil on canvas) - Alfred Stevens