The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 19, 2022

Landscape with Figure and Houses

c. 1891

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker

(French, 1851-1934)

France, 19th century

Pastel on brown wove paper

Sheet: 63 x 78.5 cm (24 13/16 x 30 7/8 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2014.2

Location

not on view

Description

This ethereal landscape exemplifies Schuffenecker’s best work in pastel. Massive lichen-covered rocks, heightened by flecks of mauve, dominate the foreground, dwarfing a tiny figure who pauses beside a fence to contemplate a golden field of wheat. The artist used a dense network of parallel strokes to create the effect of a shimmering mirage.

Provenance
1903-?
Amédée Schuffenecker [1854-1936], Meudon, France
after 1903-1954
(M. Bonnel, Meudon, France, sold to Roland Robert, Nice)
1954-1997
Roland Robert, Nice, by descent to Claude Robert
1997-about 2000
Claude Robert
after 2000 - by 2014
Private collection, Belgium
?-2014
(Boquet & Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
2014-
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Oeuvres sur papier du XVIe au XXe siècle. Paris: Boquet & Marty de Cambiaire, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 78-80, 115-16; Reproduced: p. 79
Thea Burns and Philippe Saunier. The Art of the Pastel. New York: Abbeville, 2014. Reproduced: pp. 326-27
1824-1907: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. Cat. Brussels: Eric Gillis Fine Art, 2015. Mentioned: p. 32, no. 14
Exhibition history

Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.2