Women Sewing at a Table
Eugène Carrière
ca. 1894–96
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
10 1/4 × 15 in. (26 × 38.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Ariane and Alain Kirili, 2013
Accession Number
2013.428
Tags
WomenSewing
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...