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A pastel drawing depicting a landscape with a solitary figure.

A pastel drawing showing a landscape with a golden field and a path extending through it from left to right. In the center of the field is a single tree topped with orange foliage. To the left of the tree a person bends from the waist down towards the ground. In the background, the field is surrounded by greenery through which two houses can be seen.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.49
People
Claude Emile Schuffenecker, French (Fresne-Saint-Mamès, Franche-Comté, France 1851 - 1934 Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Title
Landscape with an Orange Tree
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1889-1891
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/353662

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on cardboard
Dimensions
50.2 × 66 cm (19 3/4 × 26 in.)
frame: 64.8 × 81.3 cm (25 1/2 × 32 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Verso, secondary board top left corner in black ink: No. 9
  • stamp: Recto, bottom right corner, red-brown stamp: Atelier stamp: The letters E and S with a lotus-like flower to the right of the letters.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection, France (since the early 20th century) sold; to [Emmanuel Marty de Cambiaire, Paris] sold; to [Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund and Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.49
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue16: 1824-1907 / Paintings & Drawings, auct. cat., Eric Gillis Fine Art (Brussels, 2015), no. 14, repr. p. 33
  • Marty de Cambiaire: Dessins & Esquisses, auct. cat., Marty de Cambiare (Paris, 2015), p. 98, pp. 139-140, repr. pp. 100-101, repr. p. 140.
  • Carey Dunne, Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism, Hyperalleric (July 4, 2016), [e-journal], http://hyperallergic.com/305877/flowers-of-evil-and-the-macabre-literary-imagination-of-symbolism/, accessed January 9, 2017
  • Franklin Einspruch, Fuse Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums, The Arts Fuse ([e-journal], June 9, 2016), repr., http://artsfuse.org/146319/fuse-visual-arts-review-a-pair-of-drawing-shows-at-the-harvard-art-museums/, accessed June 9, 2016

Exhibition History

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