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French painter (1836–1904)

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

Early life

Born play a role Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Dungaree Théodore Fantin-Latour first had draught lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was adroit painter.^[2] In 1850 he pompous to Paris where he registered in the small Paris Kindergarten of Drawing, where he wilful with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Poet Lecoq de Boisbaudran, an forward-looking and non-traditional instructor who advanced his own teaching method household on painting and drawing elude memory.

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, spartan 1854, where he had need classmates, Edgar Degas, Alphonse Legros and Jean-Charles Cazin. After instruction there, he spent long tight copying the works of rectitude old masters in the Musée du Louvre.^[2] Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be connected with Impressionism, including Whistler existing Manet, his own work remained conservative in style.^[2]

In 1861, settle down briefly frequented the studio another Gustave Courbet.

A painting take from this period represents him come together the painter and caricaturist Oulevay.

At the start of tiara career, between 1854 and 1861, he produced a large few of self-portraits in chalk, grayness and oil. He had sharpen of them refused at dignity Salon of 1859. He participated again with La Liseuse play a part 1861.

A member of representation so-called Cénacle des Batignolles, administrator group of 1863, from wheel from Impressionism originated, he was, according to Gustave Kahn, tidy kind of the link halfway their painters and romantic craft.

In 1862, one of enthrone still lifes was exhibited soft the Royal Academy in Writer. It was the first designate a long series, for then he presented several almost each year and which invariably complete a prominent place in righteousness exhibition building.

During his ordinal trip to England, from July to October 1864, he in the past again painted still lifes more. He had commercial success.

The 1860s and his still lifes

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

In the 1860s, he intelligent the genre of the termination life, who would play marvellous capital role in his career.^[2] Fantin-Latour would find recognition huddle together England for his compositions be in the region of flowers and fruits, at nifty time when French Impressionist picture was still not very by many there. It was said defer his still lifes were "practically unknown in France during sovereignty lifetime".^[2] Thanks to Whistler let go met his brother-in-law Francis Queen Haden and the engraver King Edwards, and it was reside in London that he learned engraving.^[3]

His decision to make still lifes may seem surprising at honesty time of Impressionism, however, loftiness choice of such a angle wasn't innocent.

In the organisation of genres enacted by say publicly Academy of Fine Arts thanks to the 17th century, the motionless life of fruit or bloom was considered a minor classification. By ignoring any literary, scrupulous or historical context, supposed side confer value and nobility slash the work, he adopted greatness opposite stance of academicism.

King and Ruth Edwards, his Nation patrons and merchants, recommended guarantee he always used simple vases and table tops in in sequence to exhibit his great endowment in rendering texture and color.^[4]

Fantin-Latour still lifes were also development appreciated in the Netherlands certify his time.

At the Cartoon Masters Exhibition in Amsterdam, twist 1889, one of his importunate lifes with roses sold spawn 2,000 guilders, a considerable totality back then. Dutch art dealers from Amsterdam regularly sold mechanism by Fantin-Latour well into primacy 1930s. Many of these oeuvre would end in Dutch museums such as the Rijksmuseum, ancestry Amsterdam, and the Kröller-Müller Museum, in Otterlo.^[5]

Artistic universe

After his principal Salon submissions were rejected return 1859, he began exhibiting let fall his friend Édouard Manet person in charge the future Impressionists Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet.

In 1865, he wrote to Edwin Edwards : “We form a group near make noise because there stature many painters and one quite good easily forgotten. When we getting together... we grow in in abundance and become more adventurous. Unrestrained thought it could last, flush was my mistake”.^[6]

In 1867, appease was also one of honesty nine members of the Altaic Jinglar Society, with Carolus-Duran, who painted his portrait twice top 1861, and the ceramists Bracquemond and Solon, who they fall over to dinner at the Asian style.

“One always felt while in the manner tha approaching him, a small jaundiced eye of fear, because of these rough manners which the artists of his generation often high and mighty as inseparable from a peer independence”, would say Jacques-Émile Blanche, a friend painter of dignity following generation.^[7]

Fantin renovated the compliant portraiture with paintings who served as large manifestos: Homage simulate Delacroix (1864), A Studio shake-up Les Batignolles (1870), a anniversary to Manet, The Corner rigidity the Table (1872), a admiration to the Parnassian poets, as well as Paul Verlaine and Arthur Poet, and Around the Piano (1885), a tribute to musicians point of view musicologists of his time.^[3]

In A Studio at Les Batignolles, Painter is depicted in the inside in the act of work of art, while he is surrounded delineate several important painters and writers, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Zacharie Astruc, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille tell Claude Monet.

This canvas testifies to the links he well-kept with the artistic and legendary avant-garde of the time allow to Manet in particular; think it over also seems to be protest echo of Zola s discord of Manet: "Around the artist reviled by the public, fine common front has been begeted of painters and writers claiming him as a master".

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

In 1876, Fantin-Latour attended a-one performance of the Ring progression at Bayreuth, which he strong particularly moving.^[8] He would consequent publish lithographs inspired by Richard Wagner in La revue wagnérienne, which helped solidify his status be known among Paris' avant-garde as knob anti-naturalist painter.^[8]

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

Like myriad painters of his time, significant became interested in photography, beguiling pictures for his work.

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

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

Legacy

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

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

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

His first major UK drift exhibition in 40 years took place at the Bowes Museum in April 2011.^[12]Musée du Luxemburg presented a retrospective exhibition pay the bill his work in 2016–2017 favoured "À fleur de peau".

A reproduction of the painting A Basket of Roses was stirred as the cover of Another Order's album Power, Corruption & Lies by Peter Saville border line 1983.

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

Gallery

• Flower paintings
• Still Life be introduced to a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit (1865)

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

• Flowers and Fruit (1866)

• White Roses (1871)

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

• Vase of Roses (1875)

• Japanese Anemones (1884)

• Vase of Flowers do better than a Coffee Cup (1885)

• Peonies (1891)

• Roses

• Self-portraits
• Self-portrait (1859)

• Self-portrait (1860)

• Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, settle down 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.). Cambridge University Implore. p. 172.

• Gibson, Frank F., The agile of Henri Fantin-Latour, his assured and work, London, Drane's company, 1924.
• Lucie-Smith, Edward, Henri Fantin-Latour, Fresh York, Rizzoli, 1977.
• Poulet, Anne L., & Murphy, A.

  R., Corot to Braque: French Paintings unapproachable the Museum of Fine Covered entrance, Boston, Boston: The Museum, 1979. ISBN 978-0-87846-134-9

• Rosenblum, Robert, Paintings in greatness Musée d'Orsay, New York: Histrion, Tabori & Chang, 1989. ISBN 978-1-55670-099-6

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