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Self-Portrait in a Spanish Costume
Marie Bracquemond (French, 1840–1916)
1880
- Medium
- etching on cream wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 31 x 27.6 cm (12 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.6 x 50 cm (12 13/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Marie Bracquemond was among a few women artists within the Impressionist circle. After exhibiting at the Salon from a relatively young age, she married the printmaker Félix Bracquemond and met artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas through his friendship with them. This print is one of about ten etchings created by Bracquemond, who presumably learned the medium from her husband and went on to master it. Here, she presents herself posed in fashionable attire, holding a distinctive fan.
