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About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, in brown ink: Eugène Carrière; verso, center right, in graphite: Dessin original / d' Eugène Carrière
Provenance
?-1957: (Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland) 1957: Print Club of Cleveland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1957-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Gifts of The Print Club of Cleveland During its Second Twenty Years (1960). The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906)
- Date
- c. 1875–1900
- Medium
- brush and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Image: 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.); Sheet: 41.8 x 66.6 cm (16 7/16 x 26 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams
- Accession no.
- 1957.212
More by Eugène Carrière in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011095
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