id: 143141 accession number: 1967.126 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.126 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:18.656000 Madame Case, after September 1900, probably summer 1901. Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906). Oil on fabric; unframed: 46.2 x 38.1 cm (18 3/16 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1967.126 title: Madame Case title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: after September 1900, probably summer 1901 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1901 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906) - artist Eugène Carrière grew up in Strasbourg, the sixth of seven children in a working-class family. He attended the city's academy in 1862 and two years later worked as a commercial lithographer. In 1869 Carrière moved to Paris, where he discovered the art of the Old Masters, Rubens in particular, which influenced his decision to become an artist. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under one of the foremost academic painters, Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). His training was suspended, however, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Shortly after enlisting, he was captured by the Germans and taken to Dresden where he was held prisoner for one year. At the end of the war he returned to Paris to resume his studies under Cabanel, and to support himself he worked for a lithographer friend, Jules Chéret (1836-1932). Carrière's painting career took off slowly, and in the Salons of 1876, 1877, and 1878 his paintings received little recognition. In 1878 he married Sophie Desmonceaux (with whom he would have seven children), and the couple spent six months in London where he discovered the works of Turner (q.v.). Back in Paris, he spent the next decade working odd jobs, most often in printshops in order to sustain his family. Through his brother, a ceramist, Carrière began working in 1880 for the Sèvres porcelain factory and there met sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). This friendly and steady associ-ation inspired each artist's work. In 1879 Carrière had painted his first maternité entitled Jeune mère (Musée Calvet, Avignon), a subject to which he would return throughout his career. His success as a painter began at the Salon of 1884 when his entry received an honorable mention. His good fortune continued with awards at the Salons of 1885 and 1887. Two years later, a medal at the Universal Exposition and the Legion of Honor indicated how well his work was received by critics, artists, and writers. From 1890 through 1897, Carrière lived his most fruitful years as an artist, began making lithographs, and frequently traveled abroad. He was connected with most of the important critics and avant-garde artists of the time, such as Bonnard (q.v.), Gauguin (q.v.), Vuillard (q.v.), Maurice Denis (1870-1943), and Paul Sérusier (1864-1927). He was also admired by the symbolists for the dreamlike quality of his paintings. In 1890 he associated himself with Meissonier (q.v.), Rodin, Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914), and Puvis de Chavannes (q.v.), who founded the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in opposition to the official system of the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1903, in an effort to oppose restrictive rules of the Société Nationale, Carrière established a new salon, the Salon d'Automne, and was named its president. --- measurements: Unframed: 46.2 x 38.1 cm (18 3/16 x 15 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed sgraffito into paint at bottom left: Eugène Carrière en toute affection à Jules Case translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Eugene Carriere Retrospective opening date: 1968-11-02T05:00:00 Eugene Carriere Retrospective. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (organizer) (November 2, 1968-January 26, 1969); High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (November 2, 1968-January 26, 1969); Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (February 16-August 3, 1969); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (November 15, 1969-January 11, 1970); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (February 22-April 5, 1970). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Allentown (Pa.) Art Museum; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Akron (Ohio) Art Institute; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Minneapolis Institute of Art. Eugène Carrière 1849-1906: Seer of the Real (1969-70), no. 4 (repr.).', 'opening_date': '1906-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Commissioned by Jules Case, Paris, after the death of his wife, 1900. Brook St. Gallery Ltd., London. Bought by the CMA in 1967. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 179 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n203 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n238 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 104-105, Vol. I, no. 39 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.126/1967.126_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.126/1967.126_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.126/1967.126_full.tif