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Source 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.
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Document identity
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313461
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Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
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drawing
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Source metadata
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313461
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drawing
title
Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
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.
date
c. 1893
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79873885
creators
313465
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
2018.206
Source extras
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black chalk on tan-colored vellum
tombstone
Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau, c. 1893. Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, 1858–1921). Black chalk on tan-colored vellum; sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust, 2018.206
collection
DR - German
citations
citation
Anonymous. “Nouvelles artistiques.” <em>La Fédération artistique</em>, no. 35 (June 19, 1892)
page_number
p. 420
citation
Khnopff, 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.
page_number
ill. p. 117
citation
Ollinger-Zinque, Gisèle. <em>Rétrospective Fernand Khnopff</em>. Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum, 1990.
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ill. p. 121
citation
Draguet, Michel. <em>Khnopff ou l’ambigu poétique</em>. Brussels: Crédit Communal, 1995.
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ill. p. 92
citation
Weiermair, Peter and Sigrun Loos. <em>Eros und Tod: Der Belgische Symbolismus</em>. Zurich: Oehrli, 1999.
page_number
ill. no.71
citation
Delevoy, Robert L., Catherine de De Croës, Fernand Khnopff, and Gisele Ollinger-Zinque. Fernand Khnopff. Brüssel: Cosmos Monographies, 1987.
page_number
439
catalogueRaisonne
Delevoy 237
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Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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2026-05-29 08:54:42.263000
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313461
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Drawings
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DR - German
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black chalk on tan-colored vellum
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male
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