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Carrière’s contemporaries paid him a sincere tribute in 1904 when Auguste Rodin
organised a banquet in his honour.
Throughout his career, his painting, far from restricting itself to portraits and interior
scenes, embraced most pictorial genres, always in response to Symbolist concerns. Suffering Matthijs Maris,
from throat cancer, Carrière underwent surgery that left him paralysed and unable to talk The King’s Children, c. 1890.
during the last year of his life. But he was a man who was well liked by many, and his friends Oil on canvas, 94.5 x 65 cm.
continued to pay him visits, engaging in written conversations with him. Carrière died in Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden.

Paris on 27 March 1906.


Eugène Carrière,
The Musée d’Orsay celebrated the centenary of his death with the Rodin-Eugène
The Motherly Kiss, 1898.
Carrière exhibition and also through the publication of the catalogue raisonné of his painted Oil on canvas, 99 x 74 cm.
works, a final homage. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau.

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