Tag: Fantin-Latour

Autoportrait (1861)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1861 Oil on canvas, 25.1 x 21.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Autoportrait (1858)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1858 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 32.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Autoportrait (c.1858)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) c.1858 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 21.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of his career, between 1854 and 1861, Fantin-Latour executed a large number of self-portraits in chalk, charcoal, and oil.…

Naïade (c.1896)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Naïade (Naiad) c.1896 Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 55 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Fantin-Latour drawing (1859)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Fantin-Latour drawing 1859 Black chalk and graphite on paper, 24.5 x 15.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Inscription, in pencil, top right: ‘Fantin au lit/ la poursuite/ de ses études dans les difficultés, 14° froid, le 20…

Vase de fleurs (1861)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) 1861 Oil on canvas, 44.4 x 36 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The painter and critic Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942) compared Fantin-Latour’s studies of the flower—”its grain, its tissue”—to the observation of…

L’Immortalité (1889)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) L’Immortalité (Immortality) 1889 Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 87.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The personification of Immortality holds the palm of victory and scatters flowers onto a tomb inscribed ‘DELACROIX’. Behind, the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral…

Une assiette de pommes (1861)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Une assiette de pommes (A Plate of Apples) 1861 Oil on canvas, 20 × 26.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Mrs Edwin Edwards 1907. This work was painted while Fantin-Latour was visiting Mr and Mrs…

Autoportrait (1860)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) 1860 Oil on canvas, 31.4 × 25.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Hans Velten 1931. Fantin-Latour painted a number of self portraits in the years 1854–61 which were characterised by…