The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
c. 1893
(Belgian, 1858–1921)
Sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2018.206
Catalogue raisonné: Delevoy 237
Location: not on view
Description
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.- 1986(sale, Galerie Nova, Brussels, June 10, 1986, no. 410, sold to private collection)Private Collection2004(sale, Sotheby's, London, June 15, 2004, no. 211)Private Collection2011(Galerie De Vuyst, Lokeren, Belgium, October 22, 2011, no. 80)Private Collection20(Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, June 1, 2018, no. 6724, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2018-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Anonymous. “Nouvelles artistiques.” La Fédération artistique, no. 35 (June 19, 1892) p. 420Khnopff, Fernand. Fernand Khnopff et ses rapports avec la Secession viennoise: Bruxelles, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, 2 octobre-6 décembre 1987. Bruxelles: Les Musées, 1987. ill. p. 117Ollinger-Zinque, Gisèle. Rétrospective Fernand Khnopff. Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum, 1990. ill. p. 121Draguet, Michel. Khnopff ou l’ambigu poétique. Brussels: Crédit Communal, 1995. ill. p. 92Weiermair, Peter and Sigrun Loos. Eros und Tod: Der Belgische Symbolismus. Zurich: Oehrli, 1999. ill. no.71Delevoy, Robert L., Catherine de De Croës, Fernand Khnopff, and Gisele Ollinger-Zinque. Fernand Khnopff. Brüssel: Cosmos Monographies, 1987. 439
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