1878
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Architecture is a 1878 by Marie Bracquemond, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a woman in a long robe holding a small building model, standing against a plain background. This sketch is a study for a bigger painting called *Muses of the Arts*. Marie Bracquemond was one of the few women in the Impressionist circle, but she rarely gets the same attention as her male friends. The model in her hand shows how she planned the final pose—tiny details that usually stay hidden. To see how she turned this sketch into a finished work, look up *Muses of the Arts* by Marie Bracquemond (French, 1840–1916).
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 drawing is one of several compositions related to Muses of the Arts , one of Bracquemond’s best known works, featuring personifications of various artforms—such as, here, architecture. The completed work was featured in the Exposition Universelle in 1878, while the related drawings, possibly including this one, were…
Although Marie Bracquemond was supported and widely respected by her colleagues in her own time, her husband’s reticence to her pursuing a career ultimately led her to limit her artistic production.
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Marie Anne Caroline Bracquemond (French pronunciation: ; née Quivoron; 1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionist artist.
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