Portrait of Paul Verlaine
Eugène Carrière
1896
Medium
Lithograph in black from two stones on China paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image/plate: 51.7 × 40.3 cm (20 3/8 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53 × 48 cm (20 7/8 × 18 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27729
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...