Eugène Carrière

Eugène Carrière grew up in Strasbourg, where he was trained in lithography, then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris under Cabanel. In 1878, he married Sophie Desmouceaux, with whom he would have seven children. The members of his family would be frequent models for his paintings. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1878 to 1890, then at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He was forever working outside of the stylistic categories of his time and never joined any particular movement.