After training and making his debut as a lithographer, the French artist Eugène Carrière opted for a painting career. His favourite subjects included family scenes and intimate portraits of artist friends, realised in a hazy, suggestive style. Carrière also produced around fifteen, usually small scale, self-portraits. Painted at the age of 38, the Ghent canvas is one of the artist’s earliest self-portraits. At that time he painted it, Carrière had already come to international prominence. The lively and direct gaze reflects the painter’s self-confidence, whilst he also appears to evoke the transience of time in the delicate image of his face. This air of intimacy and vulnerability is further enhanced by nervous brush strokes and fleeting lines.
| Artist |
Eugène Carrière
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| Title | Self-Portrait |
| Date | 1887 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | France TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: EVGÈNE CARRIÈRE 1887 |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1910-C |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Hôtel Drouot Paris 1910 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1910-C |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/498/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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self-portraits
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
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31A5341 moustache Iconclass 31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 48C512 painter in non-work situation Iconclass 48C513 portrait, self-portrait of painter Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(EUGÈNE CARRIÈRE) historical person (EUGÈNE CARRIÈRE) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Symbolism (artistic concept)
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intimist AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 42) |
| De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 152 (ill.)) |
| Eugène Carrière / Valérie Bajou. - Lausanne : Acatos Publishing, 1998 (p. 125-129, 217) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 96-97 (ill.)) |
| Kunstenaarsportretten (uit Antwerpen, Brugge en Gent : tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 26 mei - 19 augustus 2007) / Dorine Cardyn-Oomen, Nanny Schrijvers, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Gent : Vlaamse Kunstcollectie, 2007 (p. 57, nr. 58 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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