Hommage à Tolstoï
Eugène Carrière
1901
Medium
lithograph on chine colle
Dimensions
plate: 22.7 x 15.4 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/16 in.) sheet: 31.7 x 24.6 cm (12 1/2 x 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2002.157.6
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...