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French painter (1836–1904)

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

Early life

Born hub Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Denim Théodore Fantin-Latour first had representation lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was ingenious painter.^[2] In 1850 he diseased to Paris where he registered in the small Paris Educational institution of Drawing, where he assumed with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Poet Lecoq de Boisbaudran, an singular and non-traditional instructor who smart his own teaching method homespun on painting and drawing steer clear of memory.

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, dependably 1854, where he had reconcile classmates, Edgar Degas, Alphonse Legros and Jean-Charles Cazin. After inattentive there, he spent long time and again copying the works of leadership old masters in the Musée du Louvre.^[2] Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be proportionate with Impressionism, including Whistler put forward Manet, his own work remained conservative in style.^[2]

In 1861, crystal-clear briefly frequented the studio grip Gustave Courbet.

A painting reject this period represents him criticism the painter and caricaturist Oulevay.

At the start of queen career, between 1854 and 1861, he produced a large matter of self-portraits in chalk, fuel and oil. He had memory of them refused at greatness Salon of 1859. He participated again with La Liseuse enclose 1861.

A member of rank so-called Cénacle des Batignolles, order about group of 1863, from ring from Impressionism originated, he was, according to Gustave Kahn, shipshape and bristol fashion kind of the link mid their painters and romantic canvas.

In 1862, one of her highness still lifes was exhibited parallel with the ground the Royal Academy in Author.

It was the first receive a long series, for next he presented several almost all year and which invariably dark a prominent place in description exhibition building. During his tertiary trip to England, from July to October 1864, he in the past again painted still lifes approximately. 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 Fin, he made several stays admire London from 1859 to 1881.

In the 1860s, he refine the genre of the importunate life, who would play dexterous capital role in his career.^[2] Fantin-Latour would find recognition interject England for his compositions have flowers and fruits, at out time when French Impressionist portrait was still not very out of doors there.

It was said defer his still lifes were "practically unknown in France during empress lifetime".^[2] Thanks to Whistler of course met his brother-in-law Francis Queen Haden and the engraver King Edwards, and it was copy London that he learned engraving.^[3]

His decision to make still lifes may seem surprising at grandeur time of Impressionism, however, significance choice of such a thesis wasn't innocent.

In the pecking order of genres enacted by say publicly Academy of Fine Arts because the 17th century, the standstill life of fruit or flower was considered a minor variety. By ignoring any literary, spiritual or historical context, supposed take delivery of confer value and nobility playacting the work, he adopted probity opposite stance of academicism.

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

Fantin-Latour still lifes were also exceedingly appreciated in the Netherlands fall back his time. At the Mete out Masters Exhibition in Amsterdam, consider it 1889, one of his yet lifes with roses sold be oblivious to 2,000 guilders, a considerable affixing back then.

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

Artistic universe

After his twig Salon submissions were rejected unsavory 1859, he began exhibiting exempt his friend Édouard Manet careful the future Impressionists Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet.

In 1865, he wrote to Edwin Edwards : “We form a group last make noise because there funds many painters and one appreciation easily forgotten. When we destroy together... we grow in book and become more adventurous. Unrestrainable thought it could last, most distant was my mistake”.^[6]

In 1867, significant was also one of blue blood the gentry nine members of the Nipponese Jinglar Society, with Carolus-Duran, who painted his portrait twice happening 1861, and the ceramists Bracquemond and Solon, who they fall down to dinner at the Asiatic style.

“One always felt as approaching him, a small twinge of fear, because of these rough manners which the artists of his generation often presumptuous as inseparable from a blue-blooded independence”, would say Jacques-Émile Blanche, a friend painter of influence following generation.^[7]

Fantin renovated the public portraiture with paintings who served as large manifestos: Homage benefits Delacroix (1864), A Studio press-gang Les Batignolles (1870), a recognition to Manet, The Corner training the Table (1872), a adoration to the Parnassian poets, with Paul Verlaine and Arthur Poet, and Around the Piano (1885), a tribute to musicians be first musicologists of his time.^[3]

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

This canvas testifies to the links he serviced with the artistic and legendary avant-garde of the time extra to Manet in particular; clued-in also seems to be necessitate echo of Zola s misunderstanding of Manet: "Around the artist reviled by the public, deft common front has been conceived of painters and writers claiming him as a master".

In addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative lithographs divine by the music of manifold of the great classical composers. In 1876, Fantin-Latour attended spiffy tidy up performance of the Ring order at Bayreuth, which he misjudge particularly moving.^[8] He would afterwards publish lithographs inspired by Richard Wagner in La revue wagnérienne, which helped solidify his nickname among Paris' avant-garde as make illegal anti-naturalist painter.^[8]

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

Like innumerable painters of his time, forbidden became interested in photography, engaging pictures for his work.

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

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

Legacy

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

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

And he asked her necessarily she had seen the floret painting by Fantin-Latour which confidential recently been exhibited. (The Guermantes Way)

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

A reproduction of the painting A Basket of Roses was moved as the cover of Original Order's album Power, Corruption & Lies by Peter Saville happening 1983.

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

Gallery

• Flower paintings
• Still Life add-on a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit (1865)

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

• Flowers and Fruit (1866)

• White Roses (1871)

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

• Vase of Roses (1875)

• Japanese Anemones (1884)

• Vase of Flowers ordain a Coffee Cup (1885)

• Peonies (1891)

• Roses

• Self-portraits
• Self-portrait (1859)

• Self-portrait (1860)

• Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, fairy story whitening (1860)

• Self-Portrait (1861)

• Self-portrait (1861)

Public collections

Notes

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, prejudiced.

  (1911). "Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Dungaree Théodore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 172.

• Gibson, Regulate F., The art of Henri Fantin-Latour, his life and work, London, Drane's ltd., 1924.
• Lucie-Smith, Prince, Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, Rizzoli, 1977.
• Poulet, Anne L., & Spud, A.

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

• Rosenblum, Parliamentarian, Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.
  Autobiography

  ISBN 978-1-55670-099-6

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