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During the late 1870s, Edouard Manet began to experience health problems that made it difficult for him to work in oil painting. Instead, he began to draw using pastel, a powdery medium that allowed him to render line and color with each stroke. This work is one of numerous portraits that Manet created around this time with the medium. It depicts Claire Campbell, a fashionable young British woman whose father published <em>The Daily Telegraph</em>, a British newspaper. Manet used the velvety texture of pastel to render the subject's skin and hair, limiting his palette to mostly neutral tones such as white, gray, and black.
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134236
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Claire Campbell
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134236
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drawing
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Claire Campbell
description
During the late 1870s, Edouard Manet began to experience health problems that made it difficult for him to work in oil painting. Instead, he began to draw using pastel, a powdery medium that allowed him to render line and color with each stroke. This work is one of numerous portraits that Manet created around this time with the medium. It depicts Claire Campbell, a fashionable young British woman whose father published <em>The Daily Telegraph</em>, a British newspaper. Manet used the velvety texture of pastel to render the subject's skin and hair, limiting his palette to mostly neutral tones such as white, gray, and black.
date
1876
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80026742
creators
1796
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Unframed: 55.2 x 45.7 cm (21 3/4 x 18 in.)
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America
accession
1956.718
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Pastel with oil on fine-weave canvas
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Claire Campbell, 1876. Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Pastel with oil on fine-weave canvas; unframed: 55.2 x 45.7 cm (21 3/4 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1956.718
supportMaterials
description
fabric, nailed to wooden stretcher
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DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
inscribed, lower left, in light gray pastel: Manet [partially underlined]; lower left, in light blue pastel: 1876
didYouKnow
Edouard Manet almost always depicted the subjects of his pastel portraits against plain colored backgrounds, as seen in this work.
citations
citation
<em>Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Mane</em>t. Exh. Cat. Paris: École nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1884.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 62, no. 131
citation
<em>Manet: trente-cinq tableaux de la collection Pellerin</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Bernheim Jeune et Cie, 1910.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 23
citation
<em>Manet and the Post-Impressionists</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Grafton Galleries, 1910.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 30, no. 151
citation
Duret, Théodore. <em>Manet and the French Impressionists</em>. trans. J.E. Crawford Flitch. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 264, no. 9
citation
<em>Edouard Manet, Sammlung Pellerin, Paris</em>. Exh. Cat. Berlin: Paul Cassirer: 1910.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 32
citation
Waldmann, E. "Édouard Manet. Aus der Sammlung Pellerin." <em>Kunst und Kunstler</em> 8 (May 1910).
page_number
Reproduced: p. 401
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<em>Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary French Artists at the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co.</em> Exh. Cat. New York: Knoedler, 1916.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 48
citation
"Recent Changes in the Painting Galleries." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 2/3 (1918): 22-27.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 22
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www.jstor.org/stable/25136174
citation
Milliken, William M. "French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists at the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>The Arts</em> 2 (November 1921): 68-70.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 68
citation
Forthuny, Pascal. "A propos de l'exposition des impressioninistes et post-impressionnistes français au musée de Cleveland," <em>Bulletin de la vie artistique </em>3, no. 4 (1922): 94-95.
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Mentioned: p. 94
citation
Duret, Théodore. <em>Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre</em>. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1926.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 286, no. 9
citation
Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. <em>Manet raconté par lui-même</em>. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1926
page_number
Mentioned: vol. II, p. 98, 136, 143, 146; Reproduced: vol. II, p. 130
citation
“Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 161
citation
Tabarant, A. <em>Manet, histoire catalographique</em>. Paris: Éditions Montaigne, 1931.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 448, no. 4
citation
Blanche, Jacques Emile. "Les Pastels de Manet." <em>Formes</em> 24 (April 1932): 254-55.
page_number
Reproduced: between pp. 254 and 255
citation
Jamot, Paul and Georges Wildenstein. <em>Manet</em>. Paris: Beaux-Arts, 1932.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. I, p. 182, no. 527
citation
Rey, Robert. <em>Manet</em>. trans. Eveline Byam Shaw. Paris: Hyperion, 1938.
page_number
Reproduced: n.p.
citation
Rewald, John. <em>Edouard Manet Pastels</em>. Oxford: Cassirer, 1947.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 48
citation
Tabarant, A. <em>Manet et ses oeuvres</em>. Paris: Gallimard, 1947.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 277, 395, 492, 545
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 498
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 172
citation
Venturi, Marcello. <em>L'opera pittorica di Edouard Manet</em>. Milan: Rizzoli, 1967.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 410
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 172
citation
Rouart, Denis and Daniel Wildenstein. <em>Edouard Manet, catalogue raisonné</em>. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, no. 70, frontispiece
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 211
citation
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': A Checklist of Exhibits." <em>Burlington Magazine </em>152 (December 2010): 782-93.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 784
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 136-137, no. 24
citation
Brown, Heather Lemonedes. "Manet & Morisot Pastels." In <em>Manet & Morisot</em>. Emily Beeny, Heather Lemonedes Brown, Anne Higonnet, Kimberly A. Jones, Nicole R. Myers, et al., 209-221. San Francisco, New Haven: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Yale University Press, 2025.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 209-212, 219-221; Reproduced: p. 136, no. 54
catalogueRaisonne
Rouart and Wildenstein 70
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The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
galleryDonorText
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery
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