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Exploding volcanoes, mock naval battles, bullfights and more are subject matter for the delicate fans and artworks picturing fans in the Met Museum\u2019s absorbing exhibition \u2018Fanmania<\/a>.\u2019\u00a0 Here, Belgian artist and friend to Degas, Eva Gonzales, Berthe Morisot, Manet and other major 19th<\/sup> century Parisian painters Alfred Stevens<\/a> pictures a well-heeled young beauty in a bourgeois living space \u2013 the kind of subject matter that made him successful.\u00a0 Dressed in a Japanese kimono in a style adapted to French tastes and holding a fan, the figure demonstrates Stevens\u2019 attraction to Japanese art and decorative objects, which he collected from the late 1850s.\u00a0 (On view at the Met Museum through May 12th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Alfred Stevens, The Japanese Robe, ca 1872, oil on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exploding volcanoes, mock naval battles, bullfights and more are subject matter for the delicate fans and artworks picturing fans in the Met Museum\u2019s absorbing exhibition \u2018Fanmania.\u2019\u00a0 Here, Belgian artist and friend to Degas, Eva Gonzales, Berthe Morisot, Manet and other major 19th century Parisian painters Alfred Stevens pictures a well-heeled young beauty in a bourgeois … <\/p>\n

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