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Henri Fantin-Latour, Self portrait (1859), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble.

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

Biography

Born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère, 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 1875, 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

Literary References:

From 'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Proust

" 'Many young women's hands would be incapable of doing what I see there,' said the Prince, pointing to Mme de Villeparisis's unfinished waterocolours. And he has asked her whether she had seen the flower painting by Fantin-Latour which had recently been exhibited." p.371 'The Guermantes Way'

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

Public collections holding works by Fantin-Latour

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.

Footnotes

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

External links

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