Elise Smiling
Eugène Carrière
1895
Medium
Lithograph in black on white chine
Dimensions
Image: 33.1 × 23.5 cm (13 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 38 × 28 cm (15 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
64353
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...