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Study for "Landscape with Figure and Houses"
About the Artwork
This drawing is a study for Claude-Emile Schuffenecker's highly finished pastel with the same title, also in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (2014.2). All of the major compositional elements of the scene—the lichen-covered rocks in the foreground, the figure by the fence that stretches horizontally across the landscape, and the cottage in the distance—are suggested in this preparatory work. Flecks of color in the field and streaks in the background foliage and sky create a shimmering effect that is further enhanced in the finished pastel.
Inscriptions
stamped, at lower right, in gray ink: artist's mark (not in Lugt); inscribed, on verso, at upper left, in brown ink: Nocturne Espagnol / flute
Provenance
?-?: Private collection, Nice ?-2016: (Pierre Maillard, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2016-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934)
- Date
- c. 1891
- Medium
- pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 33.5 x 50 cm (13 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund
- Accession no.
- 2016.269
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-00011573
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