The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Souvenir of Seville
1905
(British, 1868–1909)
Fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.)
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King 1962.398
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Charles Conder exhibited his first fan design in 1893 and created a significant number of similar works over the following 15 years.Description
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.- ?-1962Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert P. Schafer, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1962-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Galbally, Ann. Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian. Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Mentioned: p. 266Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 134-35, 144, no. 46; Reproduced: p. 135
- British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993).
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