Henri Fantin-Latour

{"Id":154,"Name":"Henri Fantin-Latour","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFANTIN-LATOUR, IGNACE HENRI JEAN THEODORE (1836-1904)\u003C/strong\u003E, French artist, was born at \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenoble\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGrenoble\u003C/a\u003E on the 14th of January 1836. He studied first with his father, a pastel painter, and then at the drawing school of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Boisbaudran\u0026role=\u0026nation=\u0026prev_page=1\u0026subjectid=500014825\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003E[Horace] Lecoq de Boisbaudran\u003C/a\u003E, and later under \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=752\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECouture\u003C/a\u003E. He was the friend of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=31\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EIngres\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=48\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EDelacroix\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=992\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECorot\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=746\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECourbet\u003C/a\u003E and others. He exhibited in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Salon.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESalon\u003C/a\u003E of 1861, and many of his more important canvases appeared on its walls in later years, though 1863 found him with \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1038\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EHarpignies\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=790\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EManet\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/legros_alphonse.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELegros\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=652\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EWhistler\u003C/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refus%E9s\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESalon des Refuses\u003C/a\u003E. Whistler introduced him to English artistic circles, and he lived for some time in England, many of his portraits and flower pieces being in English galleries.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHis portrait groups, arranged somewhat after the manner of the Dutch masters, are as interesting from their subjects as they are from the artistic point of view. \u003Cu\u003EHommage \u0026agrave; Delacroix\u003C/u\u003E showed portraits of Whistler and Legros, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ba/Baudelai.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBaudelaire\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/hu/Husson.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EChampfleury\u003C/a\u003E and himself; \u003Cu\u003EUn Atelier \u0026agrave; Batignolles\u003C/u\u003E gave portraits of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=810\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMonet\u003C/a\u003E, Manet, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/zo/Zola-Emi.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EZola\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=405\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERenoir\u003C/a\u003E, and is now in the Luxembourg; \u003Cu\u003EUn Coin de table\u003C/u\u003E presented \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ve/Verlaine.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EVerlaine\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ri/Rimbaud.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERimbaud\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1210\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECamille\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.arbredor.com/auteurs/peladan.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003E[S\u0026acirc;r Jos\u0026eacute;phin] P\u0026eacute;ladan \u003C/a\u003E [\u003Ca href=\u0022http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en\u0026sl=fr\u0026u=http://www.arbredor.com/auteurs/peladan.html\u0026prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522(Jos%25C3%25A9phin%2BOR%2BJoseph%2BOR%2BJosephin)%2B(P%25C3%25A9ladan%2BOR%2BPeladan)%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EEN\u003C/a\u003E] and others; and \u003Cu\u003EAutour du Piano\u003C/u\u003E contained portraits of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chabrier.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EChabrier\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/di/DIndy-Vi.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ED\u0027Indy\u003C/a\u003E and other musicians. His paintings of flowers are perfect examples of the art, and form perhaps the most famous section of his work in England. In his later years he devoted much attention to \u003Ca href=\u0022http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/lithography\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003Elithography\u003C/a\u003E, which had occupied him as early as 1862, but his examples were then considered so revolutionary, with their strong lights and black shadows, that the printer refused to execute them. After \u003Cu\u003EL\u0027Anniversaire\u003C/u\u003E in honour of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/Berlioz.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBerlioz\u003C/a\u003E in the Salon of 1876, he regularly exhibited lithographs, some of which wore excellent examples of delicate portraiture, others being elusive and imaginative drawings illustrative of the music of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/wa/Wagner-Ri.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EWagner\u003C/a\u003E (whose cause he championed in Paris as early as 1864), Berlioz, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/br/Brahms-J.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBrahms\u003C/a\u003E and other composers. He illustrated \u003Cu\u003EAdolphe Juiliens Wagner\u003C/u\u003E (1886) and \u003Cu\u003EBerlioz\u003C/u\u003E (1888). There are excellent collections of his lithographic work at Dresden, in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBritish Museum\u003C/a\u003E, and a practically complete set given by his widow to the Louvre. Some were also exhibited at \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.vam.ac.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESouth Kensington\u003C/a\u003E in 1898-1899, and at the Dutch gallery in 1904.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn 1876, he married a fellow painter, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2682\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EVictoria Dubourg\u003C/a\u003E, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife\u0027s family at Bur\u0026eacute;, Orne in Basse-Normandie, where he died on the 28th of August 1904. He was \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr\u0026GRid=7321\u0026pt=Henri%20Fantin%20latour\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003Eburied at\u003C/a\u003E the cemetery in Montparnasse.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EA catalogue of the lithographs of Fantin-Latour was drawn up by Germain Hediard in \u003Cu\u003ELes Maitres de la lithographie (1898-1899)\u003C/u\u003E. A volume of reproductions, in a limited edition, was published(Paris, 1907) as \u003Cu\u003EL\u0027oeuvre lithographigue de Fantin-Latour\u003C/u\u003E. See A. Jullien, \u003Cu\u003EFantin-Latour, Un vie et ses amities\u003C/u\u003E (Paris, 1909).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESources:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Based on the entries on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://35.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FA/FANTIN_LATOUR.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fantin-Latour\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EWikipedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":true,"HasLibraryItems":true,"HasProducts":true,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":293}