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Fernand Khnopff

Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau

c. 1893
black chalk on tan-colored vellum

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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.

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