Portrait of a young girl, oil on canvas by Eugène Carrière
Painter of the intimate and ethereal, Carrière remains unclassifiable from the usual stylistic categories of art history. After difficult beginnings where he lived humbly, recognition began with several official purchases by the State (1882, The Young Mother, then at the 1885 Salon for The Sick Child).
He then experienced fame, which reached its peak with the banquet that Rodin gave in 1904, shortly before his death, with several hundred guests, artists, critics and men of letters.
Let's quote the Goncourt: "Carrière, among the young, the only talented, the only original, a ghostly realist, a psychological painter, who does not portray a figure but a smile"
Dimensions of the frame : width : 45.6 height : 53.5cm
Our portrait is to be compared with the number 1170 Tête de jeune fille of the catalog raisonné of the painted work, Gallimard editions.
