Henri Fantin-Latour

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

Contents 1 Biography 2 Gallery 3 Public collections holding works by Fantin-Latour 4 References 5 Footnotes 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, France, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers.^[1]

Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England.

In addition to his paintings, Fantin-Latour created ingenious lithographs demonstrating the music of some of the great classical composers.

In 1876, 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.

[edit] Gallery

Charlotte Dubourg, 1882. (Subject is the artist's sister-in-law.)	Édouard Manet, 1867.	White Roses, Chrysanthemums in a Vase, Peaches and Grapes on a Table with a White Tablecloth, 1867.	Vase of Roses, 1875.	Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867.
The Dubourg Family, 1878.	Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1865.	White Roses, 1875.	Still Life, Corner of a Table, 1873.	Still Life with Peaches, 1880.
Still Life, 1866.	Still Life: Glass, Silver Goblet and Cup of Champagne, 1860.	Le Soir, n.d.	Naiade, n.d.	Around the Table (Writers), 1872.
Un atelier aux Batignolles, 1870	Un atelier aux Batignolles, parody, "Worshipping Manet," ca. 1870	Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, & whitening, ca. 1860.	La Muse (Richard Wagner), lithograph, 1862.	A Plate of Apples, 1861
Homage to Delacroix, 1864	Vase de Pivoines (Vase of Peonies), oil on canvas painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1881, Honolulu Academy of Arts

[edit] Public collections holding works by Fantin-Latour

Aberdeen Art Gallery (Scotland) Armand Hammer Museum of Art (California) Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (New York) Arthur Ross Gallery (University of Pennsylvania) Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford) Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery (UK) Bowes Museum (County Durham, England) Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) Cleveland Museum of Art Detroit Institute of Arts Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Tennessee) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge) Fondation Bemberg Museum (Toulouse, France) Foundation E.G. Bührle (Zurich) Harvard University Art Museums Hermitage Museum Honolulu Academy of Arts Indiana University Art Museum Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands) La Piscine (museum of art and industry) (Roubaix, France) Los Angeles County Museum of Art MacKenzie Art Gallery (Saskatchewan) Manchester City Art Gallery (UK)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Musée de Grenoble (France) Musée des beaux-arts (Bordeaux, France) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Pau, France) Musée d'Orsay (Paris) Musée du Louvre Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) National Gallery of Canada National Gallery, London National Museums and Galleries of Wales Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri) Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California) Old Jail Art Center (Albany, Texas) Philadelphia Museum of Art Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) Saint Louis Art Museum San Diego Museum of Art Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago) Tate Gallery (London) Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) Université de Liège Collections (France) Victoria and Albert Museum

[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.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ http://www.iatwm.com/200708/FantinLatour/index.html

[edit] External links

• www.Henri-Fantin-Latour.org 273 works by Henri Fantin-Latour
• Henri Fantin-Latour at Gallery of Art

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