Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau
c. 1893
- Medium
- black chalk on tan-colored vellum
- Dimensions
- 40.5 × 32.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-213193
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
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust, 2018.206
Registry history
- c. 1893 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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