Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010967About the Artwork
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 The Daily Telegraph, 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.
Inscriptions
inscribed, lower left, in light gray pastel: Manet [partially underlined]; lower left, in light blue pastel: 1876
Provenance
1882 - at least 1884: Claire Campbell after 1884 - by 1910: Auguste Pellerin [1853–1929], Paris 1911: (purchased jointly from him by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Paul Cassirer, Berlin; and Durand-Ruel, Paris) 1911 - 1916: (transferred to Durand-Ruel, New York) 1916: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) 1916: (M. Knoedler & Co., sold to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland, OH) 1916-1956: Ralph Thrall [1855–1926] and Fanny Tewksbury [1867–1949] King, Cleveland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1956-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929). Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013). Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023). Manet & Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (March 29-July 5, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date
- 1876
- Medium
- Pastel with oil on fine-weave canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 55.2 x 45.7 cm (21 3/4 x 18 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
- Accession no.
- 1956.718
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