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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.
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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
Height (in): 16
Width (cm): 33
Width (in): 13
Techniques
Fine Art - painting
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
oil on canvas
Material
canvas
oil
Location
In store
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