Study for "Landscape with Figure and Houses" (c. 1891): Art, History and Details

Study for "Landscape with Figure and Houses" (c. 1891) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This drawing is a study for Claude-Emile Schuffenecker's highly finished pastel with the same title, also in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (2014.2). All of the major compositional elements of the scene—the lichen-covered rocks in the foreground, the figure by the fence that stretches horizontally across the landscape, and the cottage in the distance—are suggested in this preparatory work. Flecks of color in the field and streaks in the background foliage and sky create a shimmering effect that is further enhanced in the finished pastel.

Object facts

• Title: Study for "Landscape with Figure and Houses"
• Date: c. 1891
• Creator attribution: Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pastel
• Dimensions: Sheet: 33.5 x 50 cm (13 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2016.269

Collection credit

Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Salsbury, Britany. Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.

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