The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Landscape with Figure and Houses

Landscape with Figure and Houses

c. 1891
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

On the back of this drawing, Emile Schuffenecker noted "Nocturne Espagnol / flute," referencing a specific piece of music that provided inspiration for the work.

Description

To record rural landscapes, Emile Schuffenecker often took advantage of recently constructed train lines that facilitated travel outside Paris. Here, he portrayed Meudon, a southwestern suburb. Schuffenecker used easily portable pastel sticks to sketch outdoors, producing studies that he later developed into finished works in his studio. With distinctive vertical marks, he combined complementary colors to increase their intensity, choosing textured brown paper to further this impact. The shimmering result is grounded by massive lichen-covered rocks in the foreground that evoke ancient monumental stones in the area and give the drawing a sense of timelessness.
  • 1903-?
    Amédée Schuffenecker [1854-1936], Meudon, France
    after 1903-1954
    (M. Bonnel, Meudon, France, sold to Roland Robert, Nice)
    1954-1997
    Roland Robert, Nice, by descent to Claude Robert
    1997-about 2000
    Claude Robert
    after 2000 - by 2014
    Private collection, Belgium
    ?-2014
    (Boquet & Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    2014-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Oeuvres sur papier du XVIe au XXe siècle. Paris: Boquet & Marty de Cambiaire, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 78-80, 115-16; Reproduced: p. 79
    Thea Burns and Philippe Saunier. The Art of the Pastel. New York: Abbeville, 2014. Reproduced: pp. 326-27
    1824-1907: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. Cat. Brussels: Eric Gillis Fine Art, 2015. Mentioned: p. 32, no. 14
  • Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).
    Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).
  • {{cite web|title=Landscape with Figure and Houses|url=false|author=Claude-Emile Schuffenecker|year=c. 1891|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.2