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Study for "Seaweed Gatherers, Yport"
About the Artwork
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker worked closely with Paul Gauguin to form Synthetism, a style of art that broke from Impressionism in favor of flat planes of bold color and invented subjects. This drawing is a study for one of Schuffenecker’s most important works, Seaweed Gatherers, Yport, which exists in two versions, one of which belongs to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The other version of the drawing (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago) was featured in an influential 1889 exhibition organized by Gauguin and Schuffenecker at the Café Volpini on the grounds of the Universal Exposition. Both artists saw imagery of seaweed gatherers—a task undertaken by working class people in rural French coastal towns—as exemplifying the simplicity they sought in their art.
Inscriptions
Signed, at lower right, in black ink, with artist’s stamp (not in Lugt); watermark: ED&Cie. [inside cartouche] (Emile Desloye)
Provenance
1934-?: Jeanne Schuffenecker, Paris ?-?: Jacques Fouquet, Paris ?-2020: Private Collection, New York 2020: (Abbatoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 2020-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934)
- Date
- c. 1888
- Medium
- black chalk on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.6 x 31.3 cm (18 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Elizabeth Carroll Shearer Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.289
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-00011195
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