Keywords: Alfred Stevens - Palm Sunday - Walters 37141.jpg 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 ca 1862 oil on panel cm 34 2 26 accession number 37 141 21547 William T Walters Baltimore prior to 1878 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters before 1878 Signature At lower right A Stevens 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 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Alfred Stevens Paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1862 paintings 19th-century oil paintings of standing women at full length Mourning women in art Palm Sunday Salute to Belgium |