Self-Portrait
Eugène Carrière
ca. 1893
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (41.3 x 32.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Albert Otten Foundation Gift, 1979
Accession Number
1979.97
Tags
MenSelf-portraits
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...