Wednesday 9 September 2015

Henri Fantin-Latour - part 4

1871 Self-Portrait 
charcoal 19.8 x 11.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
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Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 – 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
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. In 1850 he entered the Ecole de Dessin, where he studied with Lecoq de Boisbaudran. 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. 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.
Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England, where his still-lifes sold so well that they were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime". 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 on 25 August 1904.

This is part 4 of a 13-part series on the works of Henri Fantin-Latour. For earlier works see parts 1 - 3 also.



1871 Still Life: A Yellow Rose 
oil on canvas 30 x 24 cm 
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

1871 Vase of Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas

1871 White Roses in a Green Vase
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1871-74 L'amour vainqueur ( The Conquering Love ) 
oil on canvas 81 x 60 cm 
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK

1871-74c Cupid and Venus 
oil on canvas 37 x 32.1 cm 
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK

1871-74c The Bathers 
oil on canvas 46.4 x 50.3 cm 
Manchester City Galleries, UK

1871c Frightened Bather 
oil on canvas 7.8 x 10.1 cm

1871c Still Life with Flowers
 oil on canvas 45.8 x 52.7 cm 
Private Collection

1871c Three Bathers 
oil on paper mounted on canvas 16 x 23.5 cm 
Private Collection

1872 A Mixed Bunch
 oil on canvas 39.1 x 27.5 cm
 Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland, UK

1872 Cherry Blossoms 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 33.6 cm 
Private Collection

1872 Dahlias 
oil on canvas 44.5 x 37 cm
 Private Collection

1872 Daisies and Dahlias 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1872 Daisies 
oil on canvas 46.4 x 41.3 cm 
Private Collection

1872 Flowers in a Vase 
oil on canvas 88.9 x 68.6 cm 
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley, UK

1872 Flowers 
oil on canvas 58 x 68.2 cm 
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK

1872 Flowers: Carnations and Hyacinth in a Champagne Flute 
oil on canvas 38.1 x 26.7 cm 
Private Collection


1872 By the Table

This group picture brought together several writers, namely Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud Elzéar Bonnier, Léon Valade, Émile Blémont, Jean Aicard, Ernst d’Hervilly, and Camille Pelletan. Originally Fantin-Latour was planning a companion piece to his Homage to Delacroix, which was to feature Baudelaire, the influential writer, at its centre. This plan gradually receded in favour of a rather informal grouping of literary figures around a table.
This late group portrait became famous because of its authentic portrayal of Verlaine and Rimbaud, who are sitting on the left-hand side of the table in the foreground.

1872 By the Table 
oil on canvas 160 x 225 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of (standing): Elzéar Bonnier, Emile Blémont, Jean Aicard, (sitting): Paul Velaine, Arthur  Rimbaud, Léon Valade, Ernest d’Hervilly, Camille Pelletan.

1871 Homage to Baudelaire 
pencil 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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1871 Homage to Baudelaire
 pencil 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
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1871 Homage to Baudelaire 
pencil 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1871 Homage to Baudelaire 
pencil, pen and wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm
 Musée du Louvre, Paris
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n.d. Homage to Baudelaire 
pen and brown wash on tracing paper 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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1872 Lilacs 
oil on canvas 56.5 x 47 cm
 Private Collection

1872 Queens Daisies 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1872 Roses in a Vase
 oil on canvas 35.6 x 28 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1872 Roses 
oil on canvas 32.5 x 25.5 cm 
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums, Scotland, UK

1872 Spring Flowers 
oil on canvas 25.5 x 25 cm
 Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1872 Still Life with Roses, Fruit and a Glass of Wine
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1872 Still Life with Vase of Hawthorn, Bowl of Cherries, Japanese Bowl, and Cup and Saucer
 oil on canvas 23.5 x 21.7 cm 
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1872 Still Life: Chrysanthemums and Grapes 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1872 Still Life: Malmaison Roses 
oil on canvas 30 x 24 cm 
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

1872 Study of a Naked Woman 
oil on canvas 44.5 x 27 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris photo 
© RMN ( Musée d'Orsay )

1872 Study of Roses 
oil on canvas 47 x 37 cm 
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK

1872 Vase of Flowers: Queens Daisies 
oil on canvas 46.4 x 38.4 cm
 Private Collection

1872 Vase of Roses 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1872c A Woodland Glade 
oil on canvas 47.4 x 52.1 cm 
Manchester City Galleries, UK

1872c Flowers
 oil on canvas 26.5 x 28 cm
 Private Collection

1873 A la Mémoire de Schumann 
oil on canvas 32 x 20 cm

1873 Chrysanthemums in a Vase 
oil on canvas 62.7 x 54 cm
 Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1873 Dahlias
 oil on canvas 33.2 x 48.3 cm 
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Scotland, UK

1873 Flowers in a Vase 
oil on canvas 52.7 x 44.8 cm 
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK

1873 Flowers: Roses and Mimosa 
oil on panel 27 x 18.6 cm
 Private Collection

1873 Large Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1873 Peaches on a Dish 
oil on panel 23.9 x 33.2 cm 
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

1873 Roses in a Stemmed Glass 
oil on canvas 36.2 x 36.8 cm 
Birmingham Museums Trust, UK

1873 Spring Flowers
 oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1873 Still Life: Corner of a Table
 oil on canvas 96.4 x 125 cm  
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1873 Tea Roses in a Champagne Flute 
oil on canvas 36.8 x 30.5 cm 
Private Collection

1873 The Fairy of the Alps
 lithograph 32.2 x 43 cm ( image ) 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1873 Victoria Dubourg
 oil on canvas

1873 White Roses 
oil on canvas Private Collection

1873 Yellow Flowers ( aka Coucous ) 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1873c Roses in a Tall Glass 
oil on canvas 26 x 22.9 cm 
Private Collection

1874 Carnations 
oil on canvas 31 x 23.5 cm 
Private Collection

1874 Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 55.2 x 64.8 cm 
Glasgow Museums, Scotland, UK

1874 Fairy Roses 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1874 Four Peaches on a Table 
oil on canvas 20 x 28 cm

1874 Group of Figures in a Salon
 pencil 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1874 Pansies 
oil on canvas 46.04 x 71.1 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1874 Peaches and Grapes 
oil on canvas 45.7 x 55.9 cm 
Manchester City Galleries, UK

1874 Portrait of Miss Edith Crowe 
oil on canvas 
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

1874 Roses in a White Porcelain Vase 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1874 Still Life with Pansies 
oil on canvas 47 x 56.5 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


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