Eugène Carrière / Le Contemplateur / 1902

Eugène Carrière
Le Contemplateur
1902
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Creator Name: Carrière, Eugène
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1849 - 1906
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Eugène Carrière
Title: Le Contemplateur
Title Type: Foreign
Title: Ruth's Dream (The Contemplator)
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1902
Creation End Date: 1902
Creation Date: 1902
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 33.6cm x 41cm
Inscriptions: signed lower right: Eugène Carrière
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1946.283
Credit Line: In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T., Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Context: Illustrating the poem Booz Endormi (Boaz Sleeping) by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), this painting is one of five images created by Carrière to commemorate the centennial of Hugo's birth. It depicts a reclining poet who, as if in a dream, gazes at the stars above, places one hand over his heart, and gestures toward a crescent moon. The image may refer to a moment of creative inspiration. The Symbolists believed that the moon exerts a special influence on artists and poets, inspiring not only creativity, butdarker thoughts of melancholy and suicide.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1946.283
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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