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Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
Fernand Khnopffc. 1893
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Although Fernand Khnopff was best known for depicting femmes fatales—threatening or dangerous women—this drawing offers a personalized and intimate depiction of its sitter, Augustine Bulteau. A prolific novelist and writer, Bulteau hosted a regular salon for artists such as Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec. She appears dressed conservatively but fashionably, holding her place in a book as if interrupted while reading.
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- Title: Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
- Creator: Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, 1858-1921)
- Date Created: c. 1893
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (sale, Galerie Nova, Brussels, June 10, 1986, no. 410, sold to private collection), Private Collection, (sale, Sotheby's, London, June 15, 2004, no. 211), Private Collection, (Galerie De Vuyst, Lokeren, Belgium, October 22, 2011, no. 80), Private Collection, (Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, June 1, 2018, no. 6724, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.206
- Medium: black chalk on tan-colored vellum
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
- Collection: DR - German
- Accession Number: 2018.206
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