Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.[1]
Henri Fantin-Latour
Paintings
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A Basket of Roses
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/NationalGalleryLondon/Th/ThNGLondon1133.jpg)
Still Life with Glass Jug, Fruit and Flowers
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/NationalGalleryLondon/Th/ThNGLondon1134.jpg)
The Rosy Wealth of June
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/PhiladephiaMuseumOfArt/Th/ThPhiladephiaMA0269.jpg)
Still Life with Roses and Asters in a Glass.
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/PhiladephiaMuseumOfArt/Th/ThPhiladephiaMA0270.jpg)
Still Life with Roses in a Fluted Vase
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/ML/Th/ThPart8132.jpg)
Self-portrait
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/ML/Th/ThPart8133.jpg)
Still life
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/ML/Th/ThPart8134.jpg)
Still life with flowers and fruits
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/ML/Th/ThPart8135.jpg)
Still life with peaches
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/ML/Th/ThPart8136.jpg)
Table corner
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourDawnAndNight.jpg)
Dawn and Night
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourImmortality.jpg)
Immortality
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourLeSoir.jpg)
Le Soir
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourTemptationStAntho.jpg)
The Temptation of St. Anthony
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourTwoSisters.jpg)
The Two Sisters
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourVenusAndCupid.jpg)
Venus and Cupid
Drawings
![](https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/ML/Th/ThPart8137.jpg)
Scene to Wagner "Reingold"
![](http://www.augustastylianougallery.com/Gallery/HenriFantinLatour/Th/ThHFLatourLaMuse.jpg)
La Muse (Richard Wagner)
Biography
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.[2] In 1850 he entered the Ecole de Dessin, where he studied with Lecoq de Boisbaudran.[2] After failing the exams for admission to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1854, he devoted much time to copying the works of the old masters in the Louvre.[2] 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.[2]
Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England, where his still-lifes sold so well that they were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime".[2] 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 Basse-Normandie, where he died of lyme disease.
He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
Marcel Proust mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time:
Many young women's hands would be incapable of doing what I see there,' said the Prince, pointing to Mme de Villeparisis's unfinished watercolours. And he has asked her whether she had seen the flower painting by Fantin-Latour which had recently been exhibited. (The Guermantes Way)
Public collections holding works by Fantin-Latour
* Aberdeen Art Gallery (Scotland)
* Armand Hammer Museum of Art (California)
* Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
* Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (New York)
* Arthur Ross Gallery (University of Pennsylvania)
* Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford)
* Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery (UK)
* Bowes Museum (County Durham, England)
* Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
* Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
* Cleveland Museum of Art
* Detroit Institute of Arts
* Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Tennessee)
* Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
* Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge)
* Fondation Bemberg Museum (Toulouse, France)
* Foundation E.G. Bührle (Zurich)
* Harvard University Art Museums
* Hermitage Museum
* Honolulu Academy of Arts
* Indiana University Art Museum
* Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands)
* La Piscine (museum of art and industry) (Roubaix, France)
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* MacKenzie Art Gallery (Saskatchewan)
* Manchester City Art Gallery (UK)
* Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Museum of Grenoble (France)
* Musée de Picardie (Amiens, France)
* Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (France)
* Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (France)
* Musée des Beaux-Arts (Pau, France)
* Musée des Beaux-Arts (Reims, France)
* Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (France)
* Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
* Musée du Louvre (Paris)
* Musée des Ursulines (Mâcon, France)
* Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
* Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon)
* Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)
* National Gallery of Canada
* National Gallery, London
* National Museums and Galleries of Wales
* Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri)
* Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California)
* Old Jail Art Center (Albany, Texas)
* Philadelphia Museum of Art
* Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
* Saint Louis Art Museum
* San Diego Museum of Art
* Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago)
* Tate Gallery (London)
* Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio)
* Université de Liège Collections (France)
* Victoria and Albert Museum
Notes
1. ^ Rosenblum 1989, p. 162.
2. ^ a b c d e Poulet & Murphy 1979, p. 73.
References
* Gibson, Frank F., The art of Henri Fantin-Latour, his life and work, London, Drane's ltd., 1924.
* Lucie-Smith, Edward, Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, Rizzoli, 1977.
* Poulet, Anne L., & Murphy, A. R., Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston: The Museum, 1979. ISBN 0-87846-134-5
* Rosenblum, Robert, Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989. ISBN 1-55670-099-7
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