Sleep (Jean-René Carrière), from L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard (1897): Art, History and Details

Sleep (Jean-René Carrière), from L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard (1897) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936); Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906); Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Eugène Carrière developed an unusual approach to lithography, typically working from dark to light, as seen in this portrait of his young son Jean-René. Rather than drawing with a lithographic crayon, Carrière covered his entire stone with ink, which he then wiped and scraped away to create areas where the paper would show through when printed. Here, the visual effects of this technique combine with expressive, almost abstract forms to give the subject a fantastic, dreamlike atmosphere.

Object facts

• Title: Sleep (Jean-René Carrière), from L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard
• Date: 1897
• Creator attribution: Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936); Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906); Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 41 x 52.5 cm (16 1/8 x 20 11/16 in.); Image: 34 x 42.7 cm (13 3/8 x 16 13/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1954.334

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

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