Après le Bal Masqué — Alfred Stevens Art Postcard

The masked ball is over — a blue domino mask hangs loosely from her fingers as she leans on the railing of a veranda, looking out over a green garden in the quiet of the morning after. The white summer dress and the blue ribbon at her throat feel almost too plain for the object still in her hand. On the chair beside her, a blue parasol and a bouquet of red and white flowers wait, already quietly set aside for later in the day.

Browse the full Alfred Stevens collection for more of this kind of quiet after-the-event moment — the transition from public evening to private morning that Stevens returned to often. Postcard, 10×15 cm, printed on 350 g/m² cardstock.