Details

Title

Study of a Baby's Head and Hands

Artist/Maker

Eugène Anatole Carrière (French, 1849–1906)

Date

1900

Medium

Pastel on paper

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schlossberg

Accession #

1985.58

On View

Currently not on view

A single hand floats down from the top of the sheet like a sea anemone. Sleepy eyelids sink into shadow above plump, highlighted cheeks. Eugene Carrière, known for his interest in motherhood, drew these explorations of different views of a baby’s head and hands. Carrière cultivated a technique in which form dissolves into a misty haze. Although each truncated body part was executed independently in black and white chalks, their existence together on the same sheet of gray paper imbues the drawing with a sense of dreamlike mystery.

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