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Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
About the Artwork
Although Fernand Khnopff was best known for depicting femmes fatales—threatening or dangerous women—this drawing offers a personalized and intimate depiction of its sitter, Augustine Bulteau. A prolific novelist and writer, Bulteau hosted a regular salon for artists such as Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec. She appears dressed conservatively but fashionably, holding her place in a book as if interrupted while reading.
Provenance
1986: (sale, Galerie Nova, Brussels, June 10, 1986, no. 410, sold to private collection) Private Collection 2004: (sale, Sotheby's, London, June 15, 2004, no. 211) Private Collection 2011: (Galerie De Vuyst, Lokeren, Belgium, October 22, 2011, no. 80) Private Collection 20: (Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, June 1, 2018, no. 6724, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 2018-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, 1858–1921)
- Date
- c. 1893
- Medium
- black chalk on tan-colored vellum
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
- Accession no.
- 2018.206
More by Fernand Khnopff 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-00011543
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