# Claire Campbell

- By: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.718)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.718/1956.718_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.