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Source Description
This drawing relates to Félix Bracquemond’s interest in integrating various artistic techniques, a practice that became increasingly common around 1900. With a range of black and white media, the artist depicted a nude in a forest pool. Faint gridding was used to transfer the image either to or from a similar enamel and a print. An important part of this working process, the drawing was included in both of the major exhibitions of Bracquemond’s oeuvre during his life. From one of these displays, in 1907, Bracquemond sold it to Parisian collector Alfred Beurdeley, who acquired hundreds of drawings with the aim of representing the art of his time.
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150026
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The Bath
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drawing
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Source metadata
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150026
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drawing
title
The Bath
description
This drawing relates to Félix Bracquemond’s interest in integrating various artistic techniques, a practice that became increasingly common around 1900. With a range of black and white media, the artist depicted a nude in a forest pool. Faint gridding was used to transfer the image either to or from a similar enamel and a print. An important part of this working process, the drawing was included in both of the major exhibitions of Bracquemond’s oeuvre during his life. From one of these displays, in 1907, Bracquemond sold it to Parisian collector Alfred Beurdeley, who acquired hundreds of drawings with the aim of representing the art of his time.
date
c. 1900
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79932012
creators
5538
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 59 x 44 cm (23 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1980.24
Source extras
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brush and black and brown wash with pen and black ink, black chalk, and charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on brown wove paper laid on yellow-beige wove paper
tombstone
The Bath, c. 1900. Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914). Brush and black and brown wash with pen and black ink, black chalk, and charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on brown wove paper laid on yellow-beige wove paper; sheet: 59 x 44 cm (23 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.240
supportMaterials
description
brown wove paper laid down on yellow-beige(2) wove paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
inscribed, lower right, in brown ink: Bracquemond; inscribed, at bottom, in black chalk: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; at lower right, in black ink: mark of Alfred Beurdeley [Lugt 421]
didYouKnow
Bracquemond drew extensively and promoted the medium as the source of all artistic practice.
citations
citation
<em>Œuvres de Bracquemond</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Société nationale des beaux-arts, 1907.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 3, no. 33
citation
<em>Catalogue de l’exposition de gravures, exécutées par M. Félix Bracquemond et Sir F. Seymour Haden</em>. Paris: Hôtel des Modes, 1909.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 16, no. 274
citation
<em>Catalogue des dessins, pastels, aquarelles modernes </em>[. . .]<em> composant la collection de M. A. Beurdeley (première vente)</em>. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1920.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 13, no. 50
citation
Bouillon, Jean-Paul. "An Artistic Collaboration: Bracquemond and Baron Vitta." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 8 (Nov. 1979): 311-19.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 319n17; Reproduced: p. 315, fig. 7
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1980." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163-219.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 182, 215; Reproduced: p. 181
citation
Bouillon, Jean-Paul. <em>Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs, du japonisme à l’Art nouveau</em>. Exh. cat. Limoges: Musée National Adrien-Dubouché, 2005.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 199
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. 184-187, no. 39
creditline
Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
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2026-05-29 07:44:31.117000
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150026
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Drawings
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DR - French
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brush and black and brown wash with pen and black ink, black chalk, and charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on brown wove paper laid on yellow-beige wove paper
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male
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