Reading
c. 1875–1900
Eugène Carrière
Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906)
Drawings
Reading, c. 1875–1900. Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906). Brush and brown ink; sheet: 41.8 x 66.6 cm (16 7/16 x 26 1/4 in.); image: 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams 1957.212 Eugène Carrière was known for the evocative, hazy brushwork he used throughout various media. Executed in his signature style, this drawing likely depicts the artist's family studying a book together. Carrière favored such intimate domestic scenes, using ethereal ochre marks to allow his subjects to blend into their surroundings. Eugène Carrière's close friend, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, once said of the artist that he "sculpts in shadow."
- Maker/Artist
- Carrière, Eugène
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- brush and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 41.8 x 66.6 cm (16 7/16 x 26 1/4 in.); Image: 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Eugène Carrière ; VERSO, center right, in graphite: Dessin original / d' Eugène Carrière
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1957.212
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams
- Exhibitions
- French Drawings from the Collection, <em>Gifts from the Print Club to the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>(April 4 - August 2, 1970).<br><em><br>Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1939-1959</em> (October 11, 1960 - November 3, 1961).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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