14 Works, Today, January 16th is Eugène Anatole Carrière's day, his story, illustrated #016

 Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

La Sortie Du Theatre

Oil on canvas

10 by 26 in., 25.4 by 66 cm

Private collection

Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His paintings are best known for their brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso. Some see traces of Carrière's monochrome style in Picasso's Blue Period.

 Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

Woman with bare breast, between 1849 and 1906

Oil on canvas

H. 35.0; L. 27.0 cm.

Sainte-Croix museum, Poitiers, France

He was born at Gournay-sur-Marne. 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.

 Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

Young Mother, c. 1879

Study for a painting for the Salon of 1879

Oil on Canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, Normandy, France.

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

The young mother, c. 1879

Oil on canvas

115 x 146 cm

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

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. 

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

The young mother (1897-1900)

Oil on canvas

357 x 279 cm

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

L'enfant malade, c. 1885

Oil on canvas

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

The sick child, c. 1885

Oil on canvas

H. 101; W. 82 cm

Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)

Gustave Geffroy writes in La Vie artisticof 1892: "Divine motherhood, the religious motif which is displayed on all the canvases of old Italy, Carrière took it up, and made it the bourgeois subject of modern motherhood. It is no longer the quiet and rested motherhood of times of faith, it is the motherhood of the century of pessimism, the motherhood of the dark thoughts of mothers whose anxious embraces, and the anxious wrapping of the arms around her child's body, seem perpetually in defense against illness and death." It is indeed the portrait of the painter's wife, tenderly embracing one of his children, aged six, who was to die the same year this painting is painted.

Offered for sale in 1920, when Carrière's studio was dispersed, this particularly moving canvas was finally bought by the artist's family and offered three years later to the Louvre. More on this painting

It was followed by, The Sick Child (Montargis), The First Communion (Toulon), and the highly praised 1887 portrait of the sculptor Louis-Henri Devillez.

Eugène Carrière,  (1849–1906)

The First Communion, circa 1896

Oil on canvas

25 3/4 x 21 in. (65.4 x 53.3 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The first communion marks a child's initiation into the Christian Eucharist, the ritual consumption of consecrated bread and wine. Carrière's muted palette, fluid brushwork, and simplified forms lend an otherworldly aspect to the girl, enveloped in her white communion gown and veil. This painting and several others on the same subject have been associated with a religious triptych that the artist created about 1897. More on this painting

Eugène Carrière,  (1849–1906)

The Sculptor Louis-Henri Devillez in His Studio

Oil on canvas

220.5 x 181 cms | 86 3/4 x 71 1/4 ins

Musee d'Orsay

Louis Henri Devurez , born in Mons on July 19 , 1855 and died in Ixelles on February 2 , 1941, was a Belgian sculptor, draftsman, painter and medalist.

Son of Alphonse Devurez, one of the founders of the École des Mines de Mons, he studied with Auguste Danse , André Brunin and Charles Van Oemberg at the Académie de Mons then with Jules Cavelier at the École des beaux-arts in Paris 1, he specializes in portraiture.

Member of the National Society of Fine Arts and French artists Salon, he won a medal of 3rd class at the Paris Exposition in 1889.

Devivez formed a Workshop in Paris and collected the paintings of, among others, Eugène Carrière 4 , Maurice Denis 5 , Paul Gauguin , Édouard Manet , François-Joseph Navez or Claude Monet. More on Louis Henri Devurez

Carrière was one of the leaders in the secessionist movement, which led to the founding of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. 

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

The Sleep, c. 1890

Oil on canvas

66.2 x 65.8 cm

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

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).

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

Paul Verlaine (1890)

Oil on canvas

149.8x 121.9 cm

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

Maternity, c. 1892

Oil on canvas

37 3/4 x 45 3/4" (95.9 x 116.2 cm)

 The Museum of Modern Art

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

Christ on the cross, c. 1897

oil on canvas

H. 227.0; L. 130.0 cm.

Orsay museum, Paris, France

Eugène Carrière, (1849-1906)

Madame Menard-Dorian (1906)

Musée Albert-André

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. More on Eugène Anatole Carrière

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