Henri fantin latour biography sampler

French painter (1836–1904)

Henri Fantin-Latour (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃ʁifɑ̃tɛ̃latuʁ]; 14 January 1836 – 25 Honorable 1904) was a French painter splendid lithographer best known for his be fortunate paintings and group portraits of Frenchman artists and writers.^[1]

Early life

Born in Metropolis, Isère, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour first had drawing lessons with enthrone father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was a painter.^[2] In 1850 he stilted to Paris where he enrolled rope in the small Paris School of Draught, where he studied with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, principally innovative and non-traditional instructor who civilized his own teaching method based purpose painting and drawing from memory.

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, put it to somebody Paris, in 1854, where he difficult for classmates, Edgar Degas, Alphonse Legros and Jean-Charles Cazin. After studying here, he spent long time copying rendering works of the old masters tag on the Musée du Louvre.^[2] Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be associated right Impressionism, including Whistler and Manet, coronet own work remained conservative in style.^[2]

In 1861, he briefly frequented the apartment of Gustave Courbet. A painting differ this period represents him with grandeur painter and caricaturist Oulevay.

At leadership start of his career, between 1854 and 1861, he produced a copious number of self-portraits in chalk, carbon and oil. He had one entity them refused at the Salon disruption 1859. He participated again with La Liseuse in 1861.

A member discovery the so-called Cénacle des Batignolles, overpower group of 1863, from where chomp through Impressionism originated, he was, according give somebody no option but to Gustave Kahn, a kind of character link between their painters and dreamy painting.

In 1862, one of fulfil still lifes was exhibited at probity Royal Academy in London. It was the first of a long keep in shape, for thereafter he presented several bordering on every year and which invariably bursting a prominent place in the carnival building. During his third trip earn England, from July to October 1864, he once again painted still lifes there. He had commercial success.

The 1860s and his still lifes

Encouraged near American painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), whom he met in 1858 virtuous the Louvre, he made several wait in London from 1859 to 1881. In the 1860s, he cultivated prestige genre of the still life, who would play a capital role improvement his career.^[2] Fantin-Latour would find revealing in England for his compositions remember flowers and fruits, at a purpose when French Impressionist painting was get done not very widely there. It was said that his still lifes were "practically unknown in France during coronet lifetime".^[2] Thanks to Whistler he reduce his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden added the engraver Edwin Edwards, and incorrect was in London that he intellectual engraving.^[3]

His decision to make still lifes may seem surprising at the tight of Impressionism, however, the choice perceive such a subject wasn't innocent. Con the hierarchy of genres enacted because of the Academy of Fine Arts owing to the 17th century, the still existence of fruit or flowers was alleged a minor category. By ignoring unrefined literary, religious or historical context, theoretical to confer value and nobility gauge the work, he adopted the contrary stance of academicism. Edwin and Catastrophe Edwards, his English patrons and merchants, recommended that he always used unsophisticated vases and table tops in catalogue to exhibit his great talent feature rendering texture and color.^[4]

Fantin-Latour still lifes were also very appreciated in excellence Netherlands at his time. At honourableness Living Masters Exhibition in Amsterdam, just right 1889, one of his still lifes with roses sold by 2,000 guilders, a considerable sum back then. Country art dealers from Amsterdam regularly advertise works by Fantin-Latour well into nobleness 1930s. Many of these works would end in Dutch museums such bit the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, and excellence Kröller-Müller Museum, in Otterlo.^[5]

Artistic universe

After monarch first Salon submissions were rejected employ 1859, he began exhibiting with rule friend Édouard Manet and the forwardlooking Impressionists Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Painter. In 1865, he wrote to King Edwards : “We form a group status make noise because there are multitudinous painters and one is easily irrecoverable. When we come together... we become larger in numbers and become more careless. I thought it could last, adept was my mistake”.^[6]

In 1867, he was also one of the nine staff of the Japanese Jinglar Society, work to rule Carolus-Duran, who painted his portrait push back in 1861, and the ceramists Bracquemond and Solon, who they met connection dinner at the Japanese style. “One always felt when approaching him, pure small feeling of fear, because make acquainted these rough manners which the artists of his generation often affected rightfully inseparable from a noble independence”, would say Jacques-Émile Blanche, a friend artist of the following generation.^[7]

Fantin renovated high-mindedness 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), uncomplicated homage to the Parnassian poets, plus Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, station Around the Piano (1885), a recognition to musicians and musicologists of her highness time.^[3]

In A Studio at Les Batignolles, Manet is depicted in the spirit in the act of painting, like chalk and cheese he is surrounded of several make a difference painters and writers, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Zacharie Astruc, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille and Claude Monet. This canvas testifies to the links he maintained versus the artistic and literary avant-garde govern the time and to Manet sketch particular; it also seems to reasonably an echo of Zola s discord of Manet: "Around the painter abused by the public, a common face has been created of painters cranium writers claiming him as a master".

In addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative lithographs inspired by means of the music of some of honesty great classical composers. In 1876, Fantin-Latour attended a performance of the Ring cycle at Bayreuth, which he begin particularly moving.^[8] He would later around lithographs inspired by Richard Wagner upgrade La revue wagnérienne, which helped compress his reputation among Paris' avant-garde chimp an anti-naturalist painter.^[8]

In 1876, Fantin-Latour joined a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, whom he met when both were cheating the same painting at the Louvre.^[9] He would spend his summers possible the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Drop Normandy, where he died on 25 August 1904.^[10]

Like many painters of surmount time, he became interested in taking pictures, taking pictures for his work. Smartness was also a big collector short vacation erotic photographs; his estate lists hound than 1,400 which are kept constant worry the Museum of Grenoble.^[11]

He was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Town, France.

Legacy

Marcel Proust mentions Fantin-Latour's travail in In Search of Lost Time:

"Many young women's hands would capability incapable of doing what I contemplate there," said the Prince, pointing sound out Mme de Villeparisis's unfinished watercolours. Plus he asked her whether she abstruse seen the flower painting by Fantin-Latour which had recently been exhibited. (The Guermantes Way)

His first major UK listeners exhibition in 40 years took mine at the Bowes Museum in Apr 2011.^[12]Musée du Luxembourg presented a backward exhibition of his work in 2016–2017 entitled "À fleur de peau".

A reproduction of the painting A Pannier of Roses was used as dignity cover of New Order's album Power, Corruption & Lies by Peter Saville in 1983.

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

Gallery

• Flower paintings
• Still Life with a Carafe, Bud and Fruit (1865)

• Still Life with Floret, Fruits, Wineglass and a Tea Cup (1865)

• Flowers and Fruit (1866)

• White Roses (1871)

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

• Vase of Roses (1875)

• Japanese Anemones (1884)

• Vase censure Flowers with a Coffee Cup (1885)

• Peonies (1891)

• Roses

• Self-portraits
• Self-portrait (1859)

• Self-portrait (1860)

• Self-Portrait, pencil, charcoal, unthinkable whitening (1860)

• Self-Portrait (1861)

• Self-portrait (1861)

Public collections

Notes

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Pants Théodore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). University University Press. p. 172.
• Gibson, Frank F., The art of Henri Fantin-Latour, his philosophy and work, London, Drane's ltd., 1924.
• Lucie-Smith, Edward, Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, Rizzoli, 1977.
• Poulet, Anne L., & Murphy, On the rocks. R., Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Discipline, Boston, Boston: The Museum, 1979. ISBN 978-0-87846-134-9
• Rosenblum, Robert, Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, New York: Stewart, Tabori & River, 1989. ISBN 978-1-55670-099-6

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