Head of a Woman
Eugène Carrière
ca. 1904
Medium
Aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 8 3/4 in. (31.3 × 22.3 cm) Plate: 7 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (18.4 x 15.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc., 1991
Accession Number
1991.1012
Tags
HeadsWomen
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...