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Rêverie (Reverie),
1903
Henri Fantin-Latour, French, 1836–1904
x1935-1580
Much admired by his friends and contemporaries Manet and Degas, Fantin-Latour chose not to exhibit with the Impressionists, but he regularly participated in the Paris Salons between 1861 and 1899. His love of the sixteenthcentury
Italian masters whose paintings he copied in the Louvre—particularly Titian and Veronese—is evident in this lithograph of a languid nude meditating beside a woodland stream. Fantin-Latour first experimented with lithography in
1862, but it was not until the 1870s that he fully embraced the medium as a means of disseminating his unique, dreamlike aesthetic to a broader public. He would eventually produce nearly two hundred lithographs, emerging by the
1890s as a preeminent practitioner of the art.
Italian masters whose paintings he copied in the Louvre—particularly Titian and Veronese—is evident in this lithograph of a languid nude meditating beside a woodland stream. Fantin-Latour first experimented with lithography in
1862, but it was not until the 1870s that he fully embraced the medium as a means of disseminating his unique, dreamlike aesthetic to a broader public. He would eventually produce nearly two hundred lithographs, emerging by the
1890s as a preeminent practitioner of the art.
Information
Title
Rêverie (Reverie)
Dates
1903
Maker
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 19.2 x 31.2 cm. (7 9/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
sheet: 38 x 50.5 cm (14 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum collection
Object Number
x1935-1580
Place Made
Europe, France
Inscription
Signed in stone, lower right: H. Fantin
Signed in graphite below stone, lower right: H. Fantin
Reference Numbers
Hédiard 159
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