Claire Campbell
Details
- Author / creator
- Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Date or period
- 1876
- Dimensions summary
- Unframed: 55.2 × 45.7 cm
- Place of origin
- America
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of the Pemberton family, 1956
- Paper / support
- Cloth
- Catalogue raisonné
- Rouart and Wildenstein 70
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Pastel with oil on fine-weave canvas
Signature and marks
inscribed, lower left, in light gray pastel: Manet [partially underlined]; lower left, in light blue pastel: 1876
