Sunday 6 September 2015

Henri Fantin-Latour - part 3

1867 Self-Portrait 
oil on canvas 64 x 55.2 cm 
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK

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 3 of a 13-part series on the works of Henri Fantin-Latour. For earlier works see parts 1 and 2 also.



1866 Still Life: Primroses, Pears and Pomegranites 
oil on canvas 73 x 59.5 cm 
The Kröller-Müller Museum, The Hoge Veluwe National Park, Netherlands

1867 Duchess de Fitz-James
 oil on canvas 50.3 x 42.2 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1867 Madame Ditte 
black conté crayon, black chalk and blue pastel, stumping and erasure, with touches of white on laid paper 45 x 35 cm
 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1867 Mademoiselle de Fitz-James 
oil on canvas 51.1 x 42.8 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1867 Marie Yolande de Fitz James 
oil on canvas 50.2 x 42.2 cm 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1867 Plate of Fruit 
oil on canvas 24 x 20 cm 
Private Collection

1867 Scène d'atelier 
pencil and charcoal 29.9 x 37.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN


1867 Édouard Manet
 oil on canvas 117.5 x 90 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1867-80 Édouard Manet 
black crayon with touches of charcoal on cream wove paper 39.9 x 31.1 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL


1867 Édouard Manet 
pen and ink on wove paper 30.5 x 25.4 cm 
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas


1867 The Wedding Feast at Cana ( after Paolo Veronese -see below ) 
oil on canvas 169.9 x 250 cm 
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK


1562c Paolo Veronese "The Wedding Feast at Cana" 
oil on canvas 660 x 990 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris


1868 Apples 
oil on canvas 5.9 x 14.9 cm

1868 Asters and Fruit on a Table 
oil on canvas 56.8 x 54.9 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1868 Figure Laying on the Ground, Woman Hovering in the Air, Winged Man 
coloured pencil and charcoal 22.3 x 30.2 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1868 Flowers and Fruit 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1868 Still Life: Dahlias, Grapes and Peaches 
oil on canvas 51.5 x 49 cm
 Private Collection

1868 Three Peaches on a Plate 
oil on paper mounted on canvas 19.7 x 25.7 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1868c Vase of Flowers 
oil on canvas 35.9 x 27.9 cm 
Private Collection

1869 A Basket of Plums 
oil on canvas 13.4 x 18 cm 
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

1869 Bouquet of White Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 24.5 x 26.5 cm 
Private Collection

1869 Bowl of Peaches
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1869 Flower-piece 
oil on canvas 64.1 x 53.9 cm 
The National Trust for Scotland, UK

1869 Head of a Girl 
oil on canvas 33 x 27 cm
 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1869 Peaches 
oil on canvas 19 x 28 cm 
Private Collection

1869 Still Life ( Melon ) 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1869 The Bethrothal, Still Life 
oil on canvas 
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France

1869 White Rockets and Fruit 
oil on canvas

1869c Spring Flowers 
oil on canvas 40 x 33 cm 
Private Collection

1870 A Bowl of Fruit 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection


A Studio ar Batgnolles;

Les Batignolles was a district of Paris where Manet and many of the future Impressionists lived. Fantin-Latour, a quiet observer of this period, has gathered around Manet (presented as the leader of the school), a number of young artists with innovative ideas.

From left to right: Otto Schölderer, (a German painter who had come to France to get to know Courbet’s followers), Manet sitting at his easel, Auguste Renoir, Zacharie Astruc, a sculptor and journalist, Emile Zola (the spokesman of the new style of painting), Edmond Maître (a civil servant at the town hall), Frédéric Bazille (who was killed a few months later during the 1870 war, at the age of 26), and Claude Monet.


1870 A Studio at Les Batignolles 
oil on canvas 204 x 273 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris


Manet's Studio in the Batignolles 
conté crayon with touches of red 29.2 x 39.4 cm
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


1866 L'Atelier aux Batignolles
 pen and pencil 8 x 12 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1869 L'Atelier aux Batignolles 
pencil 12.6 x 16 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1869 L'Atelier 
pencil 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1869 L'Atelier 
pencil 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

L'Atelier aux Batignolles 
pencil 7.7 x 12.5 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

L'Atelier aux Batignolles 
pencil 8 x 12 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN


1870 Apples and Grapes
 oil on canvas 24.1 x 29.2 cm 
Private Collection

1870 Bouquet of Dahlias on a Table 
oil on canvas 35.6 x 32 cm

1870 Cherries and Almonds 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1870 Grapes and an Apple 
oil on canvas 36.7 x 42.1 cm 
Manchester City Galleries, UK

1870 Head of a Young Girl 
oil on canvas 31.7 x 21.6 cm
 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1870 Portrait of the Artist 
oil on canvas 33 x 2.8 cm 
Dublin City Gallery, Ireland

1870 Still Life of White Roses 
oil on canvas

1870 Still Life: Peach and Grapes
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1870 White Candlestick 
oil on canvas 17.1 x 25.1 cm 
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1871 Bouquet of Dahlias 
oil on canvas 28.3 x 33.3 cm
 Birmingham Museums Trust, UK

1871 Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1871 Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1871 Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1871 Flowers 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1871 Flowers, White Roses 
oil on canvas 30.5 x 26 cm 
Private Collection

1871 Flowers: Iris and Hyacinths, with Cherries and Almonds on the Table 
oil on canvas 42.5 x 31.1 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1871 La Source 
oil on canvas 42 x 33.6 cm 
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK

1871 Larkspurs 
oil on canvas 51.2 x 37 cm
 National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff, UK

1871 Narcissi, Hyacinths and Nasturtiums 
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1871 Roses 
oil on canvas 21.6 x 22.5 cm
 Private Collection