Henri Fantin-Latour
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]
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[edit] 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 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 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)
His first major UK gallery exhibition in 40 years takes place at the Bowes Museum in April 2011.[3]
[edit] Gallery
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Still Life: Glass, Silver Goblet and Cup of Champagne, 1860
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Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, & whitening, 1860
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A Plate of Apples, 1861
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La Muse (Richard Wagner), lithograph, 1862
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Homage to Delacroix, 1864
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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1865
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Still Life, 1866
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Édouard Manet, 1867
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Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867
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White Roses, Chrysanthemums in a Vase, Peaches and Grapes on a Table with a White Tablecloth, 1867
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Un atelier aux Batignolles, 1870
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Un atelier aux Batignolles, parody, "Worshipping Manet", 1870
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Around the Table (Writers), 1872
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Still Life, Corner of a Table, 1873
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Vase of Roses, 1875
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White Roses, 1875
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The Dubourg Family, 1878
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Still Life with Peaches, 1880
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Vase de Pivoines (Vase of Peonies), 1881, Honolulu Academy of Arts
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Charlotte Dubourg, 1882
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Portrait of Sonia, 1890, National Gallery of Art
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Le Soir, n.d.
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Naiade, n.d.
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[edit] Public collections holding works by Fantin-Latour
[edit] Death
Fantin-Latour died of lyme disease [4] on 25 August 1904.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Rosenblum 1989, p. 162.
- ^ a b c d e Poulet & Murphy 1979, p. 73.
- ^ "A Bed of Roses": Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists at the Bowes Museum
- ^ http://french-painters.blogspot.com/2012/02/henri-fantin-latour.html
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
- Henri-Fantin-Latour.org 273 works by Henri Fantin-Latour
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