Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Mother and child
CARRIÈRE, Eugène (1849 - 1906)
This painting of around 1890 is inscribed in French: 'to the poet Mathias Morhardt with affection'. In 1898 Morhardt perceptively compared Carrière with Rodin: 'His endeavour to model as a sculptor is visible in his care to study the human face under the elementary play of light and shade and his avoidance of every artifice of colouring to secure a brilliant effect...calm and lofty dignity enables him, simply by mastery of value and tone, to give amazing power to his modelling'. Gwendoline Davies purchased this work in 1914.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2433
Creation/Production
CARRIÈRE, Eugène
Date: 1890 ca.
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/4/1952
Measurements
Height (cm): 41.2
Width (cm): 33
Height (in): 16
Width (in): 13
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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