Madame Eugène Carrière
Eugène Carrière
1893
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.2 × 12.5 cm (7 3/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 18.4 cm (10 5/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80854
About the Artist
Eugène Carrière
Eugène Carrière (1849–1906) was a French painter whose deeply personal and atmospheric canvases made him one of the most distinctive voices of the Symbolist generation. Born in Gournay-sur-Marne, Carrière trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel, though he quickly moved beyond the academic conventions he encountered there, forging an intensely individual manner that owe...