Henri Fantin-Latour (; 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and

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best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of

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ian artists and writers.

Early life

Born in

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, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour first had drawing lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was a painter.Poulet & Murphy 1979, p. 73. In 1850 he moved to Paris where he enrolled in the small Paris School of Drawing, where he studied with Louis-Alexandre Péron and

Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran (; May 14, 1802 – August 7, 1897) was a French artist and teacher. He was born in Paris. Boisbaudran was admitted in 1819 to the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Peyron and Guillon Lethière. He exhibit ...

, an innovative and non-traditional instructor who developed his own teaching method based on painting and drawing from memory. He entered the

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, in

, in 1854, where he had for classmates,

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is e ...

Alphonse Legros Alphonse Legros (; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later was naturalized as British. He was important as a teacher in the British etching ...

and

Jean-Charles Cazin Jean-Charles Cazin (25 May 1840 – 17 March 1901) was a French landscapist, museum curator and ceramicist. Biography The son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788–1864), he was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. After studying in France, he ...

. After studying there, he spent long time copying the works of the old masters in the

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. Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be associated with

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, including Whistler and Manet, his own work remained conservative in style. In 1861, he briefly frequented the studio of

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. A painting from this period represents him with the painter and caricaturist Oulevay. At the start of his career, between 1854 and 1861, he produced a large number of self-portraits in chalk, charcoal and oil. He had one of them refused at the Salon of 1859. He participated again with ''La Liseuse'' in 1861. A member of the so-called Cénacle des Batignolles, or group of 1863, from where from

originated, he was, according to Gustave Kahn, a kind of the link between their painters and romantic painting. In 1862, one of his still lifes was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. It was the first of a long series, for thereafter he presented several almost every year and which invariably occupied a prominent place in the exhibition building. During his third trip to England, from July to October 1864, he once again painted still lifes there. He had commercial success.

The 1860s and his still lifes

Encouraged by American painter

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(1834-1903), whom he met in 1858 at the

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, he made several stays in London from 1859 to 1881. In the 1860s, he cultivated the genre of the still life, who would play a capital role in his career. Fantin-Latour would find recognition in

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for his compositions of flowers and fruits, at a time when French Impressionist painting was still not very widely there. It was said that his still lifes were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime". Thanks to Whistler he met his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden and the engraver Edwin Edwards, and it was in London that he learned engraving.Gustave Kahn, ''Fantin-Latour'', Paris, Rieder, 1926 (French) His decision to make still lifes may seem surprising at the time of Impressionism, however, the choice of such a subject wasn't innocent. In the hierarchy of genres enacted by the Academy of Fine Arts since the 17th century, the still life of fruit or flowers was considered a minor category. By ignoring any literary, religious or historical context, supposed to confer value and nobility on the work, he adopted the opposite stance of

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. Edwin and Ruth Edwards, his English patrons and merchants, recommended that he always used simple vases and table tops in order to exhibit his great talent in rendering texture and color. Fantin-Latour still lifes were also very appreciated in the

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at his time. At the Living Masters Exhibition in Amsterdam, in 1889, one of his still lifes with roses sold by 2,000 guilders, a considerable sum back then. Dutch art dealers from

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regularly sold works by Fantin-Latour well into the 1930s. Many of these works would end in Dutch museums such as the

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, in

, and the

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, in

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Artistic universe

After his first Salon submissions were rejected in 1859, he began exhibiting with his friend

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and the future Impressionists

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and

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

. In 1865, he wrote to

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: “We form a group and make noise because there are many painters and one is easily forgotten. When we come together... we grow in numbers and become more adventurous. I thought it could last, it was my mistake”. In 1867, he was also one of the nine members of the Japanese Jinglar Society, with

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, who painted his portrait twice in 1861, and the ceramists Bracquemond and Solon, who they met to dinner at the Japanese style. “One always felt when approaching him, a small feeling of fear, because of these rough manners which the artists of his generation often affected as inseparable from a noble independence”, would say Jacques-Émile Blanche, a friend painter of the following generation. Fantin renovated the collective portraiture with paintings who served as large manifestos: '' Homage to Delacroix'' (1864), '' A Studio at Les Batignolles'' (1870), a tribute to Manet, '' The Corner of the Table'' (1872), a homage to the Parnassian poets, including

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and

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, and '' Around the Piano'' (1885), a tribute to musicians and musicologists of his time. In '' A Studio at Les Batignolles'', Manet is depicted in the center in the act of painting, while he is surrounded of several important painters and writers, including

, Zacharie Astruc,

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and

. This canvas testifies to the links he maintained with the artistic and literary avant-garde of the time and to Manet in particular; it also seems to be an echo of Zola s opinion of Manet: "Around the painter reviled by the public, a common front has been created of painters and writers claiming him as a master". In addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative

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s inspired by the music of some of the great classical composers. In 1876, Fantin-Latour attended a performance of the ''Ring'' cycle at Bayreuth, which he found particularly moving. He would later publish lithographs inspired by

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in '' La revue wagnérienne'', which helped solidify his reputation among Paris' avant-garde as an anti-naturalist painter. In 1876, Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter,

Victoria Dubourg Victoria Dubourg, V Dubourg, or Victoria Fantin-Latour (1 December 1840 – 30 September 1926) was a French portrait and still life painter in France during the Impressionist period and the cultural flowering of the Belle Époque period that was ...

, whom he met when both were copying the same painting at the Louvre. He would spend his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré,

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, where he died on 25 August 1904. Like many painters of his time, he became interested in photography, taking pictures for his work. He was also a big collector of erotic photographs; his estate lists more than 1,400 which are kept in the

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. He was interred in the

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, Paris, France.

Legacy

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mentions Fantin-Latour's work in ''

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'':

"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 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 took place at the

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in April 2011.

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presented a retrospective exhibition of his work in 2016–2017 entitled "À fleur de peau". A reproduction of the painting ''A Basket of Roses'' was used as the cover of New Order's album ''

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'' by Peter Saville in 1983. Nine artworks by Fantin-Latour are listed concerning their Nazi-era provenance on the Lost Art Foundation website.

Gallery

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Henri Fantin-Latour - Retrato de M. e Mme Edwards, 1875.jpg, ''Mr. and Mrs. Edwards'' (1875),

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File:Fantin-latour-autoportrait-MBALYON.jpg, ''Self-portrait'' (1859) File:Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Self-portrait paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour.jpg, ''Self-portrait'' (1860) File:Self-Portrait by Fantin-Latour 1860.jpg, ''Self-Portrait'', pencil, charcoal, and whitening (1860) File:Henri Fantin-Latour - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Self-Portrait'' (1861) File:Henri Fantin-Latour, Self-portrait (1861).jpg, ''Self-portrait'' (1861)

Public collections

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Notes

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. * Rosenblum, Robert, ''Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay'', New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.

External links

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Henri-Fantin-Latour.org
273 works by Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour, ''Still Life'', 1867, watercolor, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections
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