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{{Short description|Painting by Carlo Carrà}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| image_size=250px
| image_file=Amante dell'ingegnere.jpg
| title=The Engineer's Lover
| other_language_1 = Italian
| other_title_1 = L'amante dell'ingegnere
| artist=[[Carlo Carrà]]
| year=1921
| medium=[[Oil painting|Oil on canvas]]
| height_metric=55
| width_metric=45
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| city=Venice
| museum=[[Peggy Guggenheim Collection]]
}}
'''''The Engineer's Lover''''' (Italian: '''L'amante dell'ingegnere'') is a painting by [[Italy|Italian]] painter [[Carlo Carrà]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hulten |editor1-first=Pontus |editor2-last=Celant |editor2-first=Germano |title=Italian Art 1900-1945 |date=1989 |publisher=Bompiani |location=Milan |page=358 |url=https://archive.org/details/italianart1900190000pont/ |access-date=5 February 2024}}</ref> It was finished during the artists phase of ''Pittura Metafisica'', or "[[Metaphysical painting]]," in 1921.<ref>{{cite book |title=Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements |section=Pittura Metafisica |date=2014 |publisher=Phaidon Press |location=London |isbn=978-0-7148-6737-3 |pages=170–171 |url=https://archive.org/details/artintimeworldhi0000unse/ |access-date=5 February 2024}}</ref>

It portrays an enigmatic head of a maiden on a brown table, flanked by a green panel with a triangle and a compasses (symbols of rationalism). The black background contributes to underline the timeless atmosphere of the scene.

The painting belongs to [[Gianni Mattioli]]'s collection.

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