Friday 11 September 2015

Henri Fantin-Latour - part 5

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



1874 Still Life with Torso and Flowers 
oil on canvas 
Gothenberg Art Museum, Sweden

1874 Study of a Naked Woman
 oil on canvas 22.5 x 29 cm 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1874 White Roses and Roses in a Footed Glass 
oil on canvas 40.3 x 35 cm
 Private Collection

1875 Asters in a Vase 
oil on canvas 58 x 59 cm 
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO

1875 Basket of Flowers 
oil on canvas 40 x 51.2 cm
 Kunstlalle, Hamburg, Germany

1875 Basket of Peaches 
oil on canvas 26 x 33 cm 
Glasgow Museums, UK

1875 Chrysanthemums
 oil on canvas 68.5 x 62.2 cm 
Private Collection

1875 Dahlias Sombres 
oil on canvas 48.6 x 42.2 cm
 Private Collection

1875 Dahlias, Queens Daisies, Roses and Corn Flowers 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1875 Flowers and Grapes 
oil on canvas 45.6 x 53.3 cm
 Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1875 Large Vase of Dahlias and Assorted Flowers 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection


1875 Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards 
oil on canvas 130.8 x 98.1 cm 
Tate, London

1875 Portraits de Monsieur et Madame Edwards
 pencil 29.8 x 21.4 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN


1875 Narcissi in an Opaline Glass Vase
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1875 Pink Roses 
oil on canvas 39.5 x 32 cm  
Leeds Art Gallery, UK

1875 Roses 
oil on canvas 44.1 x 33.6 cm

1875 Still Life
 oil on canvas 22 x 34 cm 
Kirkcaldy Galleries, Fife, Scotland, UK

1875 Still Life with White Roses
 oil on canvas 55.4 x 59.1 cm 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1875 Vase of Peonies
 oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1875 White Roses in a Glass Vase 
oil on canvas 27 x 24 cm 
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1875 White Roses 
oil on canvas 42 x 37 cm 
York Museums Trust, UK

1875c Still Life with Flowers 
oil on canvas 49 x 65 cm 
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

1875c White Roses 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Apples 
oil on canvas Private Collection

1876 Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 42.5 x 47.5 cm 
Private Collection

1876 Evocation of Erda 
transfer lithograph 28.2 x 35.8 cm ( image ) 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1876 Peonies 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1876 Portrait of Victoria Dubourg
 oil on canvas 25.4 x 20.3 cm

1876 Roses in a Basket on a Table 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Roses in a Glass Vase 
oil on canvas 50 x 44 cm 
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, UK

1876 Tannhäuser; Venusberg 
lithograph 40.9 x 50.2 cm ( image ) 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL


1876 The Three Rhine Maidens 
charcoal and pastel 52.9 x 35.2 cm
 Musée d'Orsay, Paris


1876 First Scene of The Rhinegold
 lithograph 51.2 x 33.5 cm ( image ) 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL


1876 Vase of Apples and Foliage 
oil on canvas 56.5 x 47 cm 
Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, France

1876 Vase of Flowers 
oil on canvas 32 x 26.4 cm 
Private Collection

1876 Venusberg
 lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1876 White and Yellow Roses in a Tall Vase 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 White Roses, Chrysanthemums in a Vase, Peaches and Grapes on a Table with a White Tablecloth 
oil on canvas

1877 Cherries 
oil on canvas 30 x 28.5 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1877 Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1877 Dahlias 
oil on canvas  26.7 x 34.8 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1877 Fertility ( Flowers and Cutting Grapes ) 
oil on canvas 58.4 x 54.6 cm

1877 Finale of Rheingold
 transfer lithograph 53 x 40.2 cm
 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1877 Still Life 
oil on canvas 25.8 x 30.7 cm 
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland, UK

1877 Still Life with Roses and Asters in a Glass 
oil on canvas 33.5 x 27.3 cm
 Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1877 Still Life with Roses
oil on canvas 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

1877 Still Life: Balsimines, Peaches and Apricots 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection


1877 The Anniversary ( Homage to Hector Berlioz ) 
pastel with gouache, black crayon, and scraping, with traces of graphite, over lithograph on paper, edge-mounted on board 62.5 x 51.4 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1888c Apotheosis
 lithograph 22.8 x 15.5 cm ( image )


1877 The Evening Star
 lithograph
 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1888c Apotheosis
 lithograph 22.8 x 15.5 cm ( image )


1877 The Reading 
oil on canvas 97 x 130.5 cm 
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France


1877 The Reading
 study pencil and crayon 29.1 x 38 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris 
photo © RMN (Musée d'Orsay)


1873 The Reading study 
charcoal 19.5 x 25.3 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris 
photo © RMN ( Musée d'Orsay )


1877 Vase of Flowers 
oil on canvas 27.5 x 34.3 cm 
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan

1877 White Lilies
 oil on canvas 43 x 30 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1878 Bouquet of Peonies 
oil on canvas 19.4 x 49.2 cm 
Private Collection

1878 Bouquet of Varied Roses 
oil on canvas 29 x 31 cm 
Private Collection

1878 Dahlias 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1878 Narcissus, Tulips and Pansies 
oil on canvas 46.7 x 37.9 cm 
Private Collection