Wednesday 30 September 2015

Henri Fantin-Latour - part 13

n.d. Self-Portrait 
pencil, pen, brush and ink scratching, gum arabic 21.7 x 20.7 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 13 of a 13-part series on the works of Henri Fantin-Latour. For earlier works see parts 1 - 12 also.




n.d. Roses 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

n.d. Roses 
oil on canvas

n.d. Self-Portrait 
oil on canvas 30 x 26 cm 
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

n.d. Sheet of Studies ( replica ) 
black crayon on tan tracing paper, laid down on card 25.8 x  17.7 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. Siegfried and the Daughters of the Rhine
 lithograph
 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens 
black crayon on paperboard 47.8 x 37.2 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

n.d. Sieglinde and Siegmund from Act I of "The Valkyrie" 
lithograph 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

n.d. Sitting Artist, Painting on Canvas 
charcoal on brown paper 41 x 29.2 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

n.d. Standing Naked Woman 
chalk 28.5 x 22 cm ( image ) 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Still life ( primroses, pears and promegranates ) 
oil on canvas 73 x 59 cm 
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

n.d. Still Life: Mixed Flowers 
oil on canvas 23 x 19 cm 
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

n.d. Studies of Female Heads, with Whistler's Profile 
pen and brown ink and brown wash 21.7 x 29.7 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

n.d. Study after the 'Turkish' Ingres ( see below ) 
pencil 21.3 x 19.2 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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1862 The Turkish Bath by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 
oil on canvas 108 x 110 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris


n.d. Study of Naked Woman 
pencil 35.5 x 19.5 cm 
Palace of Fine Arts, Lille, France
 photo © RMN

n.d. Study of Nude Female
 pencil 24 x 16 cm 
Palace of Fine Arts, Lille 
photo © RMN

n.d. Study of Nude Female 
pencil 24 x 16.5 cm 
Palace of Fine Arts, Lille
 photo © RMN

n.d. Study of Nude Female 
pencil 29.5 x 17 cm 
Palace of Fine Arts, Lille 
photo © RMN

n.d. Study of Sitting Woman 
32 x 24 cm 
Palace of Fine Arts, Lille, France

n.d. Sweet Peas in a Vase 
oil on canvas

n.d. The Ballet of the Trojans; Five Dancing Women Watched by a Seated Woman 
45.5 x 54 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
© RMN

n.d. The Bather 
oil on canvas 19 x 14.6 cm 
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK

n.d. The Beggar
 lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. The Birth of Christ
 oil on canvas

n.d. The Blind 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. The Entombment, after Titian ( see below ) 
oil on canvas mounted on board 44 x 57.3 cm 
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK


1520c Titian "The Entombment of Christ" 
oil on canvas 148 x 212 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris


n.d. The Flying Dutchman 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. The Judgement of Paris 
charcoal on tracing paper 22 x 20 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

n.d. The Poet and his Muse 
charcoal and wash on tracing paper 29.9 x 17.2 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

n.d. The Prayer 
lithograph
 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. The Temptation of St. Anthony 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 83.5 cm 
National Museum of Western Art,Tokyo

n.d. The Trysting Place ( attributed to ) 
oil on canvas 25.7 x 20.4 cm 
Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. The Young Tarentine 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. Three Peaches 
oil on canvas 18 x 24 cm 
Berwick Museum & Art Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK

n.d. Three Studies of Naked Women 
pencil 26.5 x 21 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 © RMN

n.d. To Berlioz 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. Two Bathers ( aka The Surprise ) 
oil on canvas

n.d. Vase of Flowers 
oil on canvas

n.d. Venus and Cupid ( attributed to ) 
oil on canvas 45.7 x 76.2 cm 
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

n.d. Venus and Cupid 
oil on canvas 22.2 x 18.4 cm 
Dublin City Gallery, Ireland

n.d. Violets and Gillyflowers 
oil on canvas 28.6 x 28.6 cm 
Hill of Tarvit, National Trust for Scotland, UK

n.d. White and Pink Roses 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

n.d. White Azaleas 
oil on canvas 24 x 19 cm 
Dover Collections, Kent, UK

n.d. White Phlox, Summer Chrysanthemum and Larkspur 
oil on canvas 26.2 x 35.6 cm 
Private Collection

n.d. White Roses and Roses in a Footed Glass
 oil on canvas

n.d. White Roses
 oil on canvas

n.d. Winter Blossoms 
oil on canvas 31.5 x 38.5 cm 
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service, UK

n.d. Woman Looking Up: Danaé? 
pencil, pen and brown ink 29.8 x 21.4 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

n.d. XXI lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. XXIV 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. XXVII 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. Young Female Sitting on a Rock 
charcoal on tracing paper 20.4 x 13.5 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN