Eugène Carrière

He was born at Gournay-sur-Marne (Seine-Saint-Denis). He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later under Cabanel. During the Franco-Prussian War he passed some time as a prisoner in Dresden, where the art of Rubens made a lasting impression on him, as may be seen in the glowing colors of his early paintings. About 1890 he adopted the gray, misty-color scheme with contrasts of light and shadow, so characteristic of his art, but which no other artist has been able to imitate without affectation.[1]

His themes usually are scenes of his domestic life, and he repeatedly introduced the likeness of his wife in his paintings. The first of these, The Young Mother (1879), is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. It was followed by, The Sick Child (Montargis), The First Communion (Toulon), and the highly praised 1887 portrait of the sculptor Louis-Henri Devillez.[2]

Carrière was one of the leaders in the secessionist movement, which led to the founding of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. At the Société, Carrière exhibited, among other works, Sleep (1890), the celebrated portrait of Paul Verlaine (1891, Luxembourg), Maternity (1892, Luxembourg), Christ on the Cross (1897), and Madame Menard-Dorian (1906).[1]

Carrière played an influential role as an art teacher at Académie de La Palette.

He also modeled a monument to Verlaine in the style of Rodin.

Several of his works may be found at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and in National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade.

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  Priam at the Feet of Achilles (1876), oil on canvas, dimensions unknown, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
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  Winding Wool (1887), oil on canvas, 99.5 x 87.6 cm., National Gallery, London
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  Woman from Behind Undressing (c. 1890-95), oil on canvas 46.5 x 38.5 cm., collection unknown
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  The Theater of Belleville (1895), oil on canvas, 220 x 490 cm., Musée Rodin, Paris
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  Virgin at the Foot of the Cross (1897), oil on canvas, Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art
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  Le Réveil, Her Mother's Kiss (1899), oil on canvas, 94 x 120 cm., Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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  The Mothers (1900). oil on canvas, 283.2 x 362.7 cm., Musée du Petit Palais, Paris
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  The Contemplator (1901), oil on canvas, 33.6 x 41 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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  Landscape in the Orne (c. 1901), oil on prepared paper mounted on canvas, 32.7 x 41.3 cm., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Portraits and figures

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  Portrait of a Boy (1886), oil on canvas, cm., Art Institute of Chicago
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  Paul Verlaine (1890), oil on canvas, 149.8x 121.9 cm., Musée du Louvre, Paris
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  Portrait of Paul Gauguin (1891), oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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  Woman Leaning on a Table (1893), oil on canvas, 65 x 54.3 cm., The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
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  Woman Looking (date unknown), oil on canvas, 81 x 65,3 cm., Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
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  Two Women (c. 1895), oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
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  Girl with Her Hair Down (1900-05), dimensions unknown, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm
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  Arsène Carriere (1899-1900), oil on canvas, 55.56 × 46.36 cm., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Prints and graphics

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  Newborn in a Bonnet (1890), lithograph, 25.5 x 19.2 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Alphonse Daudet (1893), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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  Henri Rochefort (1896), lithograph, British Museum, London
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  Paul Verlaine (1896), lithograph, 52 x 40.6 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Puvis de Chavannes (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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  Rodin (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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  Sleep (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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  Jean Dolent (1898), lithograph, 22.9 x 17 cm., British Museum, London
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  Mlle Marguerite Carrière Singing (1901), litograph, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm
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  Poster: Literary, Artistic, Aocial Aurore (1898), Bibliothèque Nationale de France

• Léonce Bénédite

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• Geffroy, Gustave (1901). L'oeuvre de E. Carrière (The Works of E. Carrière). Paris: H. Piazza.
• Morice, Charles (1906). Eugéne Carrière: L'homme et sa pensée; l'artiste et son œuvre; essai de nomenclature des oeuvres principales. Paris: Société du Mercure de France.
• Faure, Elie (1908). Eugéne Carrière, peintre et lithographe. Paris: H. Floury.
• Musée d'Orsay; Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan (National Museum of Western Art) (2006). Auguste Rodin; Eugène Carrière. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-011626-0.
• Agnès, Lauvinerie; Eduardo Leal de la Gala (2006). Moi, Eugène Carrière. Paris.

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• Eugène Carrière at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut