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| 1861 Portrait of Henri Fantin-Latour by Carolus-Duran oil on canvas 45.7 x 37.6 cm |
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 2 of a 13-part series on the works of Henri Fantin-Latour. For earlier works see part 1 also.
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| 1862 Vase of Flowers oil on canvas 45.7 x 38.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1863 Dahlias oil on canvas 24.5 x 34.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1863 Flowers in a Porcelain Vase oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm Private Collection |
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| 1863 Flowers oil on canvas 47 x 45.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1863 Homage to Delacroix pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1863 Homage to Delacroix pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1863 Homage to Delacroix pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1863 Homage to Delacroix pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1863 Study for Homage to Delacroix charcoal 37 x 47 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris photo © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) |
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| 1863-64 Homage to Delacroix oil on canvas 28 x 29 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1863 Peaches and Grapes on a White Plate oil on canvas 19.5 x 33.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1863 Still Life with Roses and Fruit oil on canvas 34.6 x 41.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1864 Diverse Flowers oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1864 Figs, Greengage and Apricot oil on canvas 16.5 x 30.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1864 Flowers in a White Porcelain Pot oil on canvas 14.6 x 20.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1864 Flowers: Tulips, Azaleas and Roses oil on canvas 49 x 44 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1864 Homage to Delacroix:
This painting is the first in a series that Fantin-Latour painted of friends, which, along with his flower paintings were to bring him fame. It was painted a year after the death of Eugène Delacroix, who appears as a portrait in the centre of the painting, honoured by a bouquet of flowers placed in front of it. Fantin-Latour painted the portrait from a photograph that had been published ten years previously.
This painting is the first in a series that Fantin-Latour painted of friends, which, along with his flower paintings were to bring him fame. It was painted a year after the death of Eugène Delacroix, who appears as a portrait in the centre of the painting, honoured by a bouquet of flowers placed in front of it. Fantin-Latour painted the portrait from a photograph that had been published ten years previously.
The ten painters and critics who have
gathered to pay their respects to Delacroix are, from left to right: Louis
Cordier, the critic Edmond Duranty, Alphonse Legros, Fantin-Latour himself (the
only figure in shirt-sleeves, holding a
palette). Whistler, Champfleury, Edouard Manet, Félix Braquemond, the poet
Charles Baudelaire, and Albert deBalleroy.
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| 1864 Homage to Delacroix oil on canvas 160 x 250 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| n.d. Study for the Portrait of Champfleury charcoal 22.9 x 18.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1864 Homage to Delacroix pencil 10 x 15.1 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| Homage to Delacroix pencil 13.6 x 17.1 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1864 Still Life With Flowers oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1864 Tulips, Camellias and Hyacinths oil on canvas 49 x 43.8 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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| 1864 Un Morceau de Schumann ( A Little Schumann ) etching 18.7 x 27.7 cm ( plate ) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
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| n.d. A Little Schumann charcoal 14.8 x 28.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1865 Vérité pencil and charcoal 37.8 x 29.9 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1865 Vérité charcoal with white highlights 24.7 x 19.2 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1891 Vérité pastel on canvas 97.8 x 78.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1900 La Verité lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1864 White Cup and Saucer oil on canvas 19.4 x 28.9 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
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| 1864c Peonies in a Vase oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1865 A Carafe of Wine and Plate of Fruit on a White Tablecloth oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1865 Antoine Vollon oil on canvas 30.2 x 18 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris photo © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) |
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| 1865 Flowers and Fruit on a Table oil on canvas 60 x 73.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1865 Flowers, Dish with Fruit and Carafe oil on canvas State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1865 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( after Alphonse Charles Masson ) black crayon with touches of graphite over charcoal, with stumping on cream laid paper 16.2 x 10.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1865 Lemons, Apples and Tulips oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1865 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 36.8 x 33.3 cm |
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| 1865 Spring Bouquet oil on canvas |
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| 1865 Still Life Hyacinths and Fruit oil on canvas 47.8 x 39 cm Private Collection |
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| 1865 Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit oil on canvas 59.1 x 51.5 cm National Museum of Western Art,Tokyo |
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| 1865 Still Life: Flowers, Bowl of Fruit and Pitcher oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1865 Vase of Flowers with a Coffee Cup oil on board 48.3 x 39.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1865 Vase of Flowers with a Plate of Strawberries oil on board 48.3 x 39.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1865 White Roses and Cherries oil on canvas 47 x 39 cm |
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| 1865c Flowers and Fruit, a Melon oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1866 Female Head pencil, charcoal and brown wash 23.3 x 19.2 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris ©RMN |
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| 1866 Flowers and Fruit oil on canvas 73 x 59.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1866 Fruit and Flowers oil on canvas 60 x 44.1 cm The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK |
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| 1866 Peaches oil on canvas 10.1 x 15.9 cm |
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| 1866 Still Life oil on canvas 62 x 74.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1866 Still Life with Flowers and Fruit oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
