Portrait of Auguste Rodin
1897
Medium
Lithograph in black from two stones on China paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/primary support: 52.8 × 34.8 cm (20 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 66.7 × 48.7 cm (26 5/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9572
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...