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Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau

Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau

c. 1893
(Belgian, 1858–1921)
France, 19th century
black chalk on tan-colored vellum
Sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2018.206
Catalogue raisonné: Delevoy 237
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • 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
  • Anonymous. “Nouvelles artistiques.” La Fédération artistique, no. 35 (June 19, 1892) p. 420
    Khnopff, Fernand. Fernand Khnopff et ses rapports avec la Secession viennoise: Bruxelles, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, 2 octobre-6 décembre 1987. Bruxelles: Les Musées, 1987. ill. p. 117
    Ollinger-Zinque, Gisèle. Rétrospective Fernand Khnopff. Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum, 1990. ill. p. 121
    Draguet, Michel. Khnopff ou l’ambigu poétique. Brussels: Crédit Communal, 1995. ill. p. 92
    Weiermair, Peter and Sigrun Loos. Eros und Tod: Der Belgische Symbolismus. Zurich: Oehrli, 1999. ill. no.71
    Delevoy, Robert L., Catherine de De Croës, Fernand Khnopff, and Gisele Ollinger-Zinque. Fernand Khnopff. Brüssel: Cosmos Monographies, 1987. 439
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau|url=false|author=Fernand Khnopff|year=c. 1893|access-date=16 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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