Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011062About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
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]
Provenance
by 1907-1919: Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919, Lugt 421], Paris 1920: (his ninth sale, November 30 and December 2, 1920, no. 50, sold to Boutet) 1920-?: Boutet by 1979-1980: Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1980-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914)
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- 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
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 59 x 44 cm (23 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Accession no.
- 1980.240
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