Eugène Carrière
(French, 1849 – 1906)



The grandson and nephew of artists, Carrière began his career as a commercial lithographer. His early experience as a printmaker contributed to the dark, monochromatic coloring of the bulk of his work, although Head of a Woman, c. 1890, with its vivid red flower, is characteristic of his early paintings. Carrière was popular with 19th-century art collectors, and artists and critics alike hailed him as a genius. In addition to Head of a Woman, Hill-Stead exhibits two other Carrière oils, Maternity, c. 1880, and Child at Table, c. 1880.