Thursday 3 September 2015

Henri Fantin-Latour - part 2

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.




1862 Vase of Flowers 
oil on canvas 45.7 x 38.8 cm 
Private Collection

1863 Dahlias
 oil on canvas 24.5 x 34.2 cm 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1863 Flowers in a Porcelain Vase
 oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm 
Private Collection

1863 Flowers 
oil on canvas 47 x 45.7 cm 
Private Collection

1863 Homage to Delacroix
 pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1863 Homage to Delacroix 
pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1863 Homage to Delacroix 
pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm
 Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1863 Homage to Delacroix 
pencil and grey wash 21.4 x 29.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1863 Study for Homage to Delacroix 
charcoal 37 x 47 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris 
photo © RMN (Musée d'Orsay)

1863-64 Homage to Delacroix 
oil on canvas 28 x 29 cm 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


1863 Peaches and Grapes on a White Plate 
oil on canvas 19.5 x 33.3 cm
 Private Collection

1863 Still Life with Roses and Fruit 
oil on canvas 34.6 x 41.6 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1864 Diverse Flowers 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1864 Figs, Greengage and Apricot 
oil on canvas 16.5 x 30.5 cm 
Private Collection

1864 Flowers in a White Porcelain Pot 
oil on canvas 14.6 x 20.3 cm
 Private Collection


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.

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.



1864 Homage to Delacroix 
oil on canvas 160 x 250 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

n.d. Study for the Portrait of Champfleury 
charcoal 22.9 x 18.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1864 Homage to Delacroix 
pencil 10 x 15.1 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

Homage to Delacroix 
pencil 13.6 x 17.1 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 ©RMN

1864 Still Life With Flowers
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1864 Tulips, Camellias and Hyacinths
 oil on canvas 49 x 43.8 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1864 Un Morceau de Schumann ( A Little Schumann ) 
etching 18.7 x 27.7 cm ( plate ) 
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

n.d. A Little Schumann 
charcoal 14.8 x 28.3 cm  
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1865 Vérité 
pencil and charcoal 37.8 x 29.9 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1865 Vérité 
charcoal with white highlights 24.7 x 19.2 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1891 Vérité 
pastel on canvas 97.8 x 78.7 cm 
Private Collection

1900 La Verité 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1864 White Cup and Saucer 
oil on canvas 19.4 x 28.9 cm 
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1864c Peonies in a Vase 
oil on canvas 
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

1865 A Carafe of Wine and Plate of Fruit on a White Tablecloth 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1865 Antoine Vollon 
oil on canvas 30.2 x 18 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris 
photo © RMN (Musée d'Orsay)

1865 Flowers and Fruit on a Table 
oil on canvas 60 x 73.3 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1865 Flowers, Dish with Fruit and Carafe 
oil on canvas 
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

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

1865 Lemons, Apples and Tulips 
oil on canvas 
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

1865 Self-Portrait 
oil on canvas 36.8 x 33.3 cm

1865 Spring Bouquet 
oil on canvas

1865 Still Life Hyacinths and Fruit 
oil on canvas 47.8 x 39 cm 
Private Collection

1865 Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit 
oil on canvas 59.1 x 51.5 cm 
National Museum of Western Art,Tokyo

1865 Still Life: Flowers, Bowl of Fruit and Pitcher 
oil on canvas 
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

1865 Vase of Flowers with a Coffee Cup 
oil on board 48.3 x 39.5 cm 
Private Collection

1865 Vase of Flowers with a Plate of Strawberries
 oil on board 48.3 x 39.5 cm 
Private Collection

1865 White Roses and Cherries
 oil on canvas 47 x 39 cm

1865c Flowers and Fruit, a Melon 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1866 Female Head
 pencil, charcoal and brown wash 23.3 x 19.2 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

1866 Flowers and Fruit
 oil on canvas 73 x 59.6 cm 
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

1866 Fruit and Flowers 
oil on canvas 60 x 44.1 cm 
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK

1866 Peaches
 oil on canvas 10.1 x 15.9 cm

1866 Still Life 
oil on canvas 62 x 74.8 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1866 Still Life with Flowers and Fruit 
oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York