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Landscape with Figure and Houses
About the Artwork
To record rural landscapes, Emile Schuffenecker often took advantage of recently constructed train lines that facilitated travel outside Paris. Here, he portrayed Meudon, a southwestern suburb. Schuffenecker used easily portable pastel sticks to sketch outdoors, producing studies that he later developed into finished works in his studio. With distinctive vertical marks, he combined complementary colors to increase their intensity, choosing textured brown paper to further this impact. The shimmering result is grounded by massive lichen-covered rocks in the foreground that evoke ancient monumental stones in the area and give the drawing a sense of timelessness.
Provenance
1903-?: Amédée Schuffenecker [1854-1936], Meudon, France after 1903-1954: (M. Bonnel, Meudon, France, sold to Roland Robert, Nice) 1954-1997: Roland Robert, Nice, by descent to Claude Robert 1997-about 2000: Claude Robert after 2000 - by 2014: Private collection, Belgium ?-2014: (Boquet & Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2014-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
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).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934)
- Date
- c. 1891
- Medium
- pastel on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 63 x 78.5 cm (24 13/16 x 30 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 2014.2
More by Émile Schuffenecker in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011124
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