Artist: Eugène Anatole Carrière
Date: 1880
Museum: Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington, United States)
Technique: Oil
Eugène Carrière, a contemporary of the Impressionists, accomplished the illusion of light on a subject by using starkly contrasting tones and a palette devoid of almost all color. Child at Table exemplifies the characteristics of Symbolist art, a movement prevalent in the 1880s and 1890s, with its expression of a religious, almost mystical feeling. The dark background of this work, rendered in a monochromatic palette with shades of blue, gray, and brown, contrasts with the creamy-white, glowing skin of the child, to create a sense of brightness. The grandson and nephew of artists, Carrière began his career as a commercial lithographer. This early experience with printmaking contributed to the dark, monochromatic coloring of the majority of his works. According to Carrière’s great-granddaughter, Véronique Milin Dumesnil, he often used his wife and one or more of his seven children in his “maternity”-themed portraits; Child at Table is a portrait of the artist’s son, Jean René, born in 1888.
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