Morphine Addict
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 41.3 × 31.2 cm · sheet: 56.7 × 42.5 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
2018.31
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Eugène Grasset was best known for idealized and decorative images of women. This lithograph, however, focuses on a darker theme—morphine addiction. A young woman is shown at the height of withdrawal as she injects herself with the drug. The syringe was invented just a few decades prior, and its inclusion was meant to give the image a sense of modernity.