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.
Biography
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.
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.Louis-Henri Devillez in his Studio, by Eugène Carrière, 1887, tumblr.com
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).
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.
Selected paintings
File:Eugène Carrière Priam.jpg|Priam at the Feet of Achilles (1876), oil on canvas, dimensions unknown, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau File:Eugène Carrière (1849-1906) - Winding Wool (Les Dévideuses) - L692 - National Gallery.jpg|Winding Wool (1887), oil on canvas, 99.5 x 87.6 cm., National Gallery, London File:Eugène Carrière Femme de dos se déshabillant.jpg|Woman from Behind Undressing (c. 1890–95), oil on canvas 46.5 x 38.5 cm., collection unknown File:Eugène Carrière, The Theater of Belleville (1895), oil on canvas, 220 x 490 cm., Musée Rodin, Paris.jpg|The Theater of Belleville (1895), oil on canvas, 220 x 490 cm., Musée Rodin, Paris File:Eugène Carrière, Vierge au pied de la Croix.jpg|Virgin at the Foot of the Cross (1897), oil on canvas, Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art File:Her-mothers-kiss-eugene-carriere.jpg|Le Réveil, Her Mother's Kiss (1899)
, oil on canvas, 94 x 120 cm., Pushkin Museum, Moscow File:EugeneCarriere3.jpg|The Mothers (1900).
oil on canvas, 283.2 x 362.7 cm.
, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris File:Eugène Carrière - The Contemplator - 1946.283 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tiff|The Contemplator (1901), oil on canvas, 33.6 x 41 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio File:Eugène Carrière - Landscape in the Orne - 67.025 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum.jpg|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
File:Eugène Carrière - Portrait of a Boy - 1956.341 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg|Portrait of a Boy (1886), oil on canvas, cm., Art Institute of Chicago File:Eugène Carrière, Paul Verlaine (1890), oil on canvas, 149.8x 121.9 cm.
, Musée du Louvre, Paris.jpg|Paul Verlaine (1890), oil on canvas, 149.8x 121.9 cm.
, Musée du Louvre, Paris File:Eugène Carrière - Portrait of Paul Gauguin - 1957.5.1 - Yale University Art Gallery.jpg|Portrait of Paul Gauguin (1891), oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven File:Woman Leaning on a Table, by Eugene Carriere.jpg|Woman Leaning on a Table (1893), oil on canvas, 65 x 54.3 cm.
, The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg File:Femme regardant - Eugène Carrière.jpg|Woman Looking (date unknown), oil on canvas, 81 x 65,3 cm., Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires File:Eugène Carrière - Two Women - 73.40 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg|Two Women (c. 1895), oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis File:Eugène Carrière Girl with her Hair Down Thielska 72.tif|Girl with Her Hair Down (1900-05), dimensions unknown, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm File:Eugène Carriere, Arsène Carriere, 1899-1900, NGA 177785.jpg|Arsène Carriere (1899-1900), oil on canvas, 55.56 × 46.36 cm.,  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Prints and graphics
File:Eugène Carrière - Newborn in a Bonnet (Le nouveau-né au bonnet - 2009.495 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|Newborn in a Bonnet (1890), lithograph, 25.5 x 19.2 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art File:Eugène Carrière, Alphonse Daudet, 1893, NGA 47651.jpg|Alphonse Daudet (1893), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Carrière - Henri Rochefort, 1949,0411.3187.jpg|Henri Rochefort (1896), lithograph, British Museum, London File:Carrière - Portrait of Paul Verlaine, 1938.1259.jpg|Paul Verlaine (1896), lithograph, 52 x 40.6 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art File:Eugène Carrière, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1897, NGA 57947.jpg|Puvis de Chavannes (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Eugène Carrière, Rodin, 1897, NGA 52488.jpg|Rodin (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Eugène Carrière, Sleep, 1897, NGA 5908.jpg|Sleep (1897)
, lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Carrière - Jean Dolent, 1949,0411.3180.jpg|Jean Dolent (1898), lithograph,  22.9 x 17 cm., British Museum, London File:Eugène Carrière Mlle Marguerite Carrière Singing Thielska 74.tiff|Mlle Marguerite Carrière Singing (1901), litograph, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm File:L'Aurore-Eugène Carrière.jpg|Poster: Literary, Artistic, Aocial Aurore (1898), Bibliothèque Nationale de France See also
Léonce Bénédite
References
Further reading
External links
Eugène Carrière: Symbols of Creations Exhibition at Kent Fine Art, New York
Musée Virtuel Eugène Carrière
Hollis, Richard.
"Ghostly realist", The Guardian, August 26, 2006
Paintings at Beauty and Ruin
Paintings at Artcyclopedia
Eugène Carrière at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
