# Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau

- By: Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, 1858–1921)
- Date: c. 1893
- Medium: black chalk on tan-colored vellum
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 40.5 x 32.4 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.206)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.206/2018.206_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.