Still Life
c. 1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
33.7 × 41.2 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/16 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27170
Art Historical Context
Eugène Carrière'sStill Life* (c. 1875) invites visitors into the intimate world of late 19th-century French. This modest oil on canvas, measuring 33.7 × 41.2 cm, captures the early experimentation during his formative years in Paris. Born in 1849, Carrière was emerging as a talent amid the vibrant art scene influenced by Realism and the nascent Impressionist movement, though he would later pioneer a distinctive Symbolist style characterized by soft, atmospheric effects. Rendered in oil on canvas—a medium prized for its luminosity and depth—this work exemplifies the enduring still life genre, ...
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...