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Vase of Flowers,
1861
Henri Fantin-Latour, French, 1836–1904
y1986-73
The painter and critic Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942) compared Fantin-Latour’s studies of the flower—"its grain, its tissue"—to the observation of a human face. Indeed, although Fantin-Latour studied painting by copying the work of Old Masters, especially Venetian Renaissance painters, at the Louvre, he also brought to the genre of still-life a mastery of botany gained through close looking and a sense of quotidian reality that was especially appreciated by British collectors. Fantin was a painter’s painter, and his floral pieces especially appealed to those fellow artists and critics who emphasized artistic concerns over narrative subject matter.
Information
Title
Vase of Flowers
Dates
1861
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
44.4 × 36 cm (17 1/2 × 14 3/16 in.)
frame: 67.8 × 59.4 × 9.8 cm (26 11/16 × 23 3/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Clinton Wilder, Class of 1943
Object Number
y1986-73
Signatures
Signed, upper left: Fantin;
Dated, upper right: 1861
Culture
Type
Subject
A. Preyer, The Hague; Hugo Reisinger, New York (until 1916; sale, American Art Association, New York, January 18–20, 1916, lot 56, to Knoedler); Mme. E. Massink de Rooy, Ellecom (until 1967; sale, Brandt, Amsterdam, April 11–14, 1967, lot 138); anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, December 1, 1969, lot 16; Clinton Wilder, New York (until 1986; bequest to Princeton University Art Museum).
