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Landscape with Figure and Houses
Émile Schuffeneckerc. 1891
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This ethereal landscape exemplifies Schuffenecker’s best work in pastel. Massive lichen-covered rocks, heightened by flecks of mauve, dominate the foreground, dwarfing a tiny figure who pauses beside a fence to contemplate a golden field of wheat. The artist used a dense network of parallel strokes to create the effect of a shimmering mirage.
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- Title: Landscape with Figure and Houses
- Creator: Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851-1934)
- Date Created: c. 1891
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 63 x 78.5 cm (24 13/16 x 30 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Amédée Schuffenecker [1854-1936], Meudon, France, (M. Bonnel, Meudon, France, sold to Roland Robert, Nice), Roland Robert, Nice, by descent to Claude Robert, Claude Robert, Private collection, Belgium, (Boquet & Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.2
- Medium: pastel on brown wove paper
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2014.2
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