Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.[1]
Biography
He was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère. As a youth, he received drawing lessons from his father, who was an artist.[2] In 1850 he entered the Ecole de Dessin, where he studied with Lecoq de Boisbaudran.[2] After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1854, he devoted much time to copying the works of the old masters in the Musée du Louvre.[2] Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be associated with Impressionism, including Whistler and Manet, Fantin's own work remained conservative in style.[2]
Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England, where his still-lifes sold so well that they were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime".[2] In addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative lithographs inspired by the music of some of the great classical composers.
In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died of lyme disease on 25 August 1904.
He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
Legacy
Marcel Proust mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time:
Many young women's hands would be incapable of doing what I see there,' said the Prince, pointing to Mme de Villeparisis's unfinished watercolours. And he has asked her whether she had seen the flower painting by Fantin-Latour which had recently been exhibited. (The Guermantes Way)
His first major UK gallery exhibition in 40 years took place at the Bowes Museum in April 2011.[3]
The painting "A basket of roses" was used as a cover of New Order's album "Power, Corruption & Lies" in 1983.
Gallery
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Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, & whitening, 1860
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A Plate of Apples, 1861
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La Muse (Richard Wagner), lithograph, 1862
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Homage to Delacroix, 1864
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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1865
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Still Life, 1866
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Édouard Manet, 1867
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Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867
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White Roses, Chrysanthemums in a Vase, Peaches and Grapes on a Table with a White Tablecloth, 1867
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Un atelier aux Batignolles, 1870
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Un atelier aux Batignolles, parody, "Worshipping Manet", 1870
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Still Life: Glass, Silver Goblet and Cup of Champagne, 1871
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Around the Table (Writers), 1872
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Still Life, Corner of a Table, 1873
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Vase of Roses, 1875
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White Roses, 1875
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La Lecture, 1877, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
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The Dubourg Family, 1878
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Still Life with Peaches, 1880
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Vase de Pivoines (Vase of Peonies), 1881, Honolulu Museum of Art
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Charlotte Dubourg, 1882
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Portrait of Sonia, 1890, National Gallery of Art
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Le Soir, n.d.
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Naiade, n.d.
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The temptation of St. Anthony
Public collections holding works by Fantin-Latour
Notes
References
- Gibson, Frank F., The art of Henri Fantin-Latour, his life and work, London, Drane's ltd., 1924.
- Lucie-Smith, Edward, Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, Rizzoli, 1977.
- Poulet, Anne L., & Murphy, A. R., Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston: The Museum, 1979. ISBN 0-87846-134-5
- Rosenblum, Robert, Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989. ISBN 1-55670-099-7
External links
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- Henri Fantin-Latour, Still Life, 1867, watercolor, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections
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