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Fantin-Latour, (Ignace-) Henri (-Jean-Theodore) (sh)




born Jan. 14, 1836, Grenoble, Fr.
died Aug. 25, 1904, Bure

French painter and printmaker.

He was trained by his father, a portrait painter, and at the ecole des Beaux-Arts. Though he associated with progressive artists (Gustave Courbet, Eugene Delacroix, edouard Manet), he was a traditionalist best known for his portraits and still lifes with flowers. His portrait groups, reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch guild portraits, depict literary and artistic persons of the time; his flower paintings were especially popular in England, thanks to James McNeill Whistler and John Everett Millais, who found patrons to support him. His later years were devoted to lithography.


"Still Life," oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of ...

By courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Chester Dale Collection