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Eugène Carrière

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c. 1875–1900
brush and brown ink

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Eugène Carrière's close friend, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, once said of the artist that he "sculpts in shadow."

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