Rodin Sculpting
Eugène Carrière
1900
Medium
Lithograph from two stones, with scraping on stone, on tan wove paper, lined with linen
Dimensions
Image: 55 × 44.3 cm (21 11/16 × 17 1/2 in.); Sheet: 68.5 × 53.3 cm (27 × 21 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105773
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...