Alphonse Daudet
Eugène Carrière
1893
Medium
Lithograph in black on China paper laid down on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 39.5 × 30.6 cm (15 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 68 × 50.5 cm (26 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133066
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...