Claire Campbell
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
1876
- Medium
- Pastel with oil on fine-weave canvas
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 55.2 x 45.7 cm (21 3/4 x 18 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
During the late 1870s, Edouard Manet began to experience health problems that made it difficult for him to work in oil painting. Instead, he began to draw using pastel, a powdery medium that allowed him to render line and color with each stroke. This work is one of numerous portraits that Manet created around this time with the medium. It depicts Claire Campbell, a fashionable young British woman whose father published The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. Manet used the velvety texture of pastel to render the subject's skin and hair, limiting his palette to mostly neutral tones such as white, gray, and black.
