Design for a China Plate
Eugène Carrière
c. 1882
Medium
Brush and brown wash and white gouache, over graphite, on blue wove paper, faded to brown
Dimensions
32.9 × 25.7 cm (13 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48846
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...