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Henri Fantin-Latour painting for sale tableaux a vendre Chrysanthèmes dans une flute de champagne 1872
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Henri Fantin-Latour painting for sale tableaux a vendre Chrysanthèmes dans une flute de champagne 1872
Henri Fantin-Latour
(Grenoble 1836 - 1904 Buré)

“Chrysanthèmes dans une flute de champagne”, 1872

Oil on canvas: 41 x 20 cm

Signed and dated upper right: Fantin 72

Notes:

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator noted for his still lifes with flowers and his portraits, especially group compositions, of contemporary French celebrities in the arts.

Fantin-Latour’s first teacher was his father, a well-known portrait painter. Later, he studied at the school of Lecoq de Boisbaudran and attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the official French Salons, but in 1863 he also showed his work in the rebel Salon des Refusés.

Although academic in manner, Fantin-Latour was independent in style. He had numerous friends among the leading French painters of his day, including J.-A.-D. Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, and Gustave Courbet. His portrait groups, often arranged in rows of heads and figures like 17th-century Dutch guild portraits, are perhaps most interesting for their portrayal of various literary and artistic persons of the time.

Fantin-Latour’s flower paintings were particularly appreciated in England, where, through James McNeill Whistler and Sir John Everett Millais, Fantin-Latour found a patron in Edwin Edwards. A wealthy amateur engraver, he supported Fantin-Latour for years by purchasing his still lifes. This current painting was also purchased by Edwin Edwards from the artist.

In the current picture we see a lovely bouquet of Chrysantheums in a champagne flute vase.

 

Provenance:

  • Edwin Edwards, London
  • Knoedler & Co, New York
  • Anne de Selys Lonchamps, Brussels, 1985 and at least until 2001
  • Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht, bought at TEFAF, 2003.
  • Private collection, Belgium, 2003
  • Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, 2023

Literature:

  • Mme Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, no. 607, p/ 71 (titled: ‘Chrysanthemes’)
  • One Hundred Master Paintings, Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht, 2003, no. 76, p. 206-207, ill.

 Expertise

  • This work has been authenticated and includes a certificate of authenticity by the Committee de Fantin-Latour and Sylvie Brame on October 25, 2023.

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