Henri Fantin-Latour

(1836–1904) fransk målare och litograf

Henri Fantin-Latour (France, 1836–1904) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Henri Fantin-Latour belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

Henri Fantin-Latour was born in Grenoble and died in Buré. Henri Fantin-Latour trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. The teachers included Louis Alexandre Peron, Théodore Fantin-Latour, and Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Henri Fantin-Latour worked in Paris and London. Wikidata associates Henri Fantin-Latour with French Realism, Symbolism, and Impressionism. Henri Fantin-Latour became a member of Groupe des Batignolles and Société du Jing-lar.

The best-known works include ‘The Reading’, ‘A Studio at Les Batignolles’, ‘Un coin de table’, and ‘Homage to Delacroix’. The works belong mainly to the genres still life, floral painting, and history painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Henri Fantin-Latour with free images. The dated works span the years 1500–1903. Works by Henri Fantin-Latour are held by several collections, among them Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, Musée d’Orsay, and Manchester Art Gallery.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Adriano Cecioni, Eugène Delaplanche, Alexander Helwig Wyant, Władysław Malecki, and James Tissot.

• Impressionism
• En ateljé i Batignolles
• Homage to Delacroix
• Around the Piano
• Un coin de table
• The Reading
• The Reading