Marguerite Carrière
1901
Medium
Lithograph from three stones in black, gray, and brown on China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 43.2 × 34.7 cm (17 1/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 56.7 × 49.2 cm (22 3/8 × 19 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41051
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...