Joseph Édouard Stevens (1816 - 1892)
Joseph Édouard Stevens
Joseph Édouard Stevens was a Belgian animalier painter and engraver. Partly self-taught, he finished his training in Paris, without enrolling in a school, and frequented the studio of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, as well as painters of the Barbizon School and of the "Groupe du Restaurant du Havre" including Thomas Couture, Eugène Isabey, Théodore Rousseau and others. He exhibited at the Brussels Salon from 1842. In 1852 he joined his two brothers in Paris where he lived for several years. He executed many drawings of horses in the Bois de Boulogne which he exhibited in Amsterdam in 1854, and later in Dijon in 1858. Stevens produced mostly canvases showing domestic animals (generally dogs, monkeys and horses) in sometimes curious or run-down settings far removed from Romanticism. This realism, of which he was one of the pioneers, attracted the interest from the 1850s of predominantly French critics and intellectuals.
| Date and place of birt: | 26 november 1816, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
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| Date and place of death: | 2 august 1892, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
| Nationality: | Belgium |
| Period of activity: | XIX century |
| Specialization: | Animalist, Artist, Engraver, Genre painter, Painter |
| Genre: | Animalistic, Genre art |
| Art style: | Realism |
| Technique: | Engraving, Etching, Oil, Oil on canvas, Oil on panel |
