Friday 25 September 2015

Henri Fantin-Latour - part 11

n.d. Self-Portrait 
pen and ink and wash 18.4 x 15 cm 
Palace of Fine Arts, Lille, France

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 11 of a 13-part series on the works of Henri Fantin-Latour. For earlier works see parts 1 - 10 also.



1899 Dahlias 
oil on canvas 29.8 x 39.4 cm 
Private Collection

1899 Huntress 
oil on canvas 39 x 47 cm 
Private Collection

1899 Larkspur 
oil on canvas 33.7 x 41.2 cm
 Private Collection

1899 Standing Bather 
lithograph 19.7 x 13.9 cm ( image ) 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1899 Three Nymphs by a Spring 
oil on canvas 55 x 66 cm 
Private Collection

1899 Two Peaches and Two Plums 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1899 Witchcraft / Curse 
lithograph 30 x 38.2 cm ( image ) 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1900 Ariadne 
lithograph 16 x 12 cm ( image ) 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1900 Bouquet of Flowers 
oil on canvas 42.2 x 38.1 cm 
Private Collection

1900 Bouquet of Flowers 
oil on canvas 49 x 60 cm 
Private Collection

1900 To Johannes Brahms 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1901 Andromeda 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1901 Paradise and the Peri - Debut 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1902 Bouquet of Roses 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1902 Danae 
oil on canvas 
Museum of Art and Industry André Diligen, Roubaix, France

1902 Vase of Peonies 
oil on canvas 42 x 36.5 cm 
Private Collection


1902 Venus and Cupid 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

n.d. The Toilette of Venus 
pencil 12.9 x 7.7 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN


1902 Venus and Cupid 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1902c Carnations 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 92.6 cm 
Private Collection

1903 At the Seaside 
oil on canvas 62 x 75 cm 
La Piscine Museum of Art and Industry André Diligen, Roubaix, France

1903 Bathsheba 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1903 Centenary of Hector Berlioz 
lithograph 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1903 Diane 
lithograph
 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1903 Duet of the Trojans 
lithograph 25.4 x 17.6 cm ( image ) 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1903 Silent Water 
lithograph 13.8 x 22.2 cm ( image )

1903 Pansies 
oil on canvas 22.9 x 28.3 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1903 Peaches 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1903 Peonies 
oil on canvas 32 x 40 cm

1903 Reverie 
lithograph 19.2 x 31.2 cm ( image ) 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1903 Sunrise 
oil on canvas 45.3 x 56.4 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1903 Two Bathers 
oil on canvas 50.8 x 61.9 cm

1903 Yellow and Pink Roses in a Glass Vase
 oil on canvas 33.3. x 37.2 cm 
Private Collection

1904 Naiad Pursued by Triton 
oil on canvas 17.3 x 37.5 cm 
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

1904 Petite Orientale Couchée 
oil on canvas 11.5 x 16.5 cm
 Private Collection

1904 Various Flowers 
oil on canvas 42.5 x 35.5 cm
 Private Collection

1904 White Carnations 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1904c The Bather 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection


n.d. A Piece of Schumann 
charcoal 14.8 x 28.3 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris 
photo © RMN

n.d. Apple Blossoms
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

n.d. Autumn 
oil on canvas

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

n.d. Basket of Dahlias 
oil on canvas

n.d. Basket of Peaches 
oil on canvas 34.5 x 47.5 cm 
Private Collection

n.d. Bathers
 charcoal, black ink and scraping on tracing paper 19.1 x 24.8 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris 
©RMN

n.d. Bathers 
oil on canvas

n.d. Bathers 
oil on canvas

n.d. Bedtime 
oil on canvas 29.5 x 22 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

n.d. Blooming Roses 
oil on canvas 33.5 x 46 cm

n.d. Blush Roses in a Glass 
oil on canvas 44 x 36 cm 
Dublin City Gallery, Ireland

n.d. Camelias 
oil on canvas 19.6 x 24.5 cm 
Dover Collections, UK

n.d. Carnations 
oil on canvas 27.4 x 35.8 cm
 Private Collection

n.d. Confidence of the Night 
lithograph

n.d. Dawn and Night 
oil on canvas 39 x 47 cm  
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

n.d. Diana and Her Handmaidens 
oil on canvas

n.d. Diana 
oil on canvas 39 x 46 cm 
Private Collection