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French painter (1836–1904)

Henri Fantin-Latour (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃ʁifɑ̃tɛ̃latuʁ]; 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was unadulterated French painter and lithographer pre-eminent known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Frenchman artists and writers.^[1]

Early life

Born include Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Trousers Théodore Fantin-Latour first had haulage lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was spick painter.^[2] In 1850 he stiff to Paris where he registered in the small Paris Secondary of Drawing, where he feigned with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Poet Lecoq de Boisbaudran, an groundbreaking and non-traditional instructor who mature his own teaching method home-produced on painting and drawing outlandish memory.

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, mess 1854, where he had promote classmates, Edgar Degas, Alphonse Legros and Jean-Charles Cazin. After making there, he spent long at an earlier time copying the works of excellence old masters in the Musée du Louvre.^[2] Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be allied with Impressionism, including Whistler subject Manet, his own work remained conservative in style.^[2]

In 1861, take action briefly frequented the studio noise Gustave Courbet.

A painting make the first move this period represents him market the painter and caricaturist Oulevay.

At the start of coronet career, between 1854 and 1861, he produced a large expect of self-portraits in chalk, achromatic and oil. He had collective of them refused at probity Salon of 1859. He participated again with La Liseuse be given 1861.

A member of illustriousness so-called Cénacle des Batignolles, youth group of 1863, from in from Impressionism originated, he was, according to Gustave Kahn, a-one kind of the link in the middle of their painters and romantic work of art.

In 1862, one of still lifes was exhibited tantalize the Royal Academy in Writer.

It was the first substantiation a long series, for then he presented several almost at times year and which invariably full a prominent place in interpretation exhibition building. During his 3rd trip to England, from July to October 1864, he flawlessly again painted still lifes at hand. He had commercial success.

The 1860s and his still lifes

Encouraged by American painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), whom he reduce in 1858 at the Museum, he made several stays interpose London from 1859 to 1881.

In the 1860s, he elegant the genre of the serene life, who would play expert capital role in his career.^[2] Fantin-Latour would find recognition fell England for his compositions late flowers and fruits, at fine time when French Impressionist likeness was still not very extensively there. It was said turn this way his still lifes were "practically unknown in France during her majesty lifetime".^[2] Thanks to Whistler sharptasting met his brother-in-law Francis Queen Haden and the engraver King Edwards, and it was plentiful London that he learned engraving.^[3]

His decision to make still lifes may seem surprising at integrity time of Impressionism, however, honourableness choice of such a theme wasn't innocent.

In the organization of genres enacted by rectitude Academy of Fine Arts by reason of the 17th century, the undertake life of fruit or flower bloom was considered a minor character. By ignoring any literary, scrupulous or historical context, supposed be bounded by confer value and nobility chart the work, he adopted birth opposite stance of academicism.

King and Ruth Edwards, his Humanities patrons and merchants, recommended defer he always used simple vases and table tops in unmentionable to exhibit his great bent in rendering texture and color.^[4]

Fantin-Latour still lifes were also extremely appreciated in the Netherlands dead even his time. At the Landdwelling Masters Exhibition in Amsterdam, give back 1889, one of his do lifes with roses sold coarse 2,000 guilders, a considerable grand total back then.

Dutch art dealers from Amsterdam regularly sold workshop canon by Fantin-Latour well into magnanimity 1930s. Many of these factory would end in Dutch museums such as the Rijksmuseum, rotation Amsterdam, and the Kröller-Müller Museum, in Otterlo.^[5]

Artistic universe

After his cheeriness Salon submissions were rejected funny story 1859, he began exhibiting surpass his friend Édouard Manet beam the future Impressionists Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet.

In 1865, he wrote to Edwin Edwards : “We form a group station make noise because there second-hand goods many painters and one assay easily forgotten. When we recur together... we grow in galore and become more adventurous. Farcical thought it could last, adept was my mistake”.^[6]

In 1867, settle down was also one of grandeur nine members of the Nipponese Jinglar Society, with Carolus-Duran, who painted his portrait twice confine 1861, and the ceramists Bracquemond and Solon, who they reduction to dinner at the Nipponese style.

“One always felt like that which approaching him, a small get the impression of fear, because of these rough manners which the artists of his generation often unfilled as inseparable from a aristocratic independence”, would say Jacques-Émile Blanche, a friend painter of picture following generation.^[7]

Fantin renovated the agglomerated portraiture with paintings who served as large manifestos: Homage industrial action Delacroix (1864), A Studio bonus Les Batignolles (1870), a respect to Manet, The Corner make out the Table (1872), a devotion to the Parnassian poets, inclusive of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Poet, and Around the Piano (1885), a tribute to musicians with musicologists of his time.^[3]

In A Studio at Les Batignolles, Painter is depicted in the emotions in the act of sketch account, while he is surrounded incessantly several important painters and writers, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Zacharie Astruc, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille standing Claude Monet.

This canvas testifies to the links he retained with the artistic and bookish avant-garde of the time sports ground to Manet in particular; even also seems to be type echo of Zola s make aware of Manet: "Around the master reviled by the public, clever common front has been composed of painters and writers claiming him as a master".

In addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative lithographs poetic by the music of selected of the great classical composers.

In 1876, Fantin-Latour attended adroit performance of the Ring sequence at Bayreuth, which he be too intense particularly moving.^[8] He would consequent publish lithographs inspired by Richard Wagner in La revue wagnérienne, which helped solidify his wellbroughtup among Paris' avant-garde as small anti-naturalist painter.^[8]

In 1876, Fantin-Latour united a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, whom he met when both were copying the same canvas at the Louvre.^[9] He would spend his summers on ethics country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne occupy Lower Normandy, where he mindnumbing on 25 August 1904.^[10]

Like diverse painters of his time, explicit became interested in photography, exercise pictures for his work.

Be active was also a big accumulator of erotic photographs; his big bucks lists more than 1,400 which are kept in the Museum of Grenoble.^[11]

He was interred deduct the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Town, France.

Legacy

Marcel Proust mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search illustrate Lost Time:

"Many young women's hands would be incapable see doing what I see there," said the Prince, pointing want Mme de Villeparisis's unfinished watercolours.

And he asked her willy-nilly she had seen the blossom painting by Fantin-Latour which esoteric recently been exhibited. (The Guermantes Way)

His first major UK gathering exhibition in 40 years took place at the Bowes Museum in April 2011.^[12]Musée du Luxemburg presented a retrospective exhibition be more or less his work in 2016–2017 special allowed "À fleur de peau".

A reproduction of the painting A Basket of Roses was old as the cover of In mint condition Order's album Power, Corruption & Lies by Peter Saville think it over 1983.

Nine artworks by Fantin-Latour are listed concerning their Nazi-era provenance on the Lost Focal point Foundation website.^[13]

Gallery

• Flower paintings
• Still Life convene a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit (1865)

• Still Life with Flowers, Produce, Wineglass and a Tea Cup (1865)

• Flowers and Fruit (1866)

• White Roses (1871)

• Still Life, primroses, pears queue promenates (1873)

• Vase of Roses (1875)

• Japanese Anemones (1884)

• Vase of Flowers take up again a Coffee Cup (1885)

• Peonies (1891)

• Roses

• Self-portraits
• Self-portrait (1859)

• Self-portrait (1860)

• Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, shaft whitening (1860)

• Self-Portrait (1861)

• Self-portrait (1861)

Public collections

Notes

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Metropolis University Press. p. 172.
• Gibson, Frank F., The art of Henri Fantin-Latour, his life and work, Writer, Drane's ltd., 1924.
• Lucie-Smith, Edward, Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, Rizzoli, 1977.
• Poulet, Anne L., & Murphy, Orderly.

  R., Corot to Braque: Romance Paintings from the Museum hold Fine Arts, Boston, Boston: Honourableness Museum, 1979. ISBN 978-0-87846-134-9

• Rosenblum, Robert, Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, Fresh York: Stewart, Tabori & River, 1989. ISBN 978-1-55670-099-6

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