Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011148Souvenir of Seville
About the Artwork
As famous for his watercolors on silk as he was for his self-destructive lifestyle, Charles Conder belonged to a generation that the poet W. B. Yeats called "the last Romantics." His delicately tinted watercolors seem like fragments of a lost era, conjuring an imaginary world of beauty, leisure, and luxury. This painted fan was made on a trip to Spain that Conder took with his wife, Stella Maris, to witness the celebration and pageantry of Holy Week and Easter. Its bold color and dynamic composition memorialized a period of health and happiness spent in the Mediterranean.
Inscriptions
Inscribed, at center, in red watercolor and shell gold: FOR MY DEAR / STELLA / MARIS / SOUVENIR / OF SEVILLE / APRIL 1905; signed at lower left, in gray watercolor: CONDER; at lower right, in red watercolor and shell gold: CONDER
Provenance
?-1962: Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert P. Schafer, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1962-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993). British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Conder (British, 1868–1909)
- Date
- 1905
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk
- Dimensions
- Fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
- Accession no.
- 1962.398
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