Henri Fantin-Latour

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Self-Portrait (1859)

Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour , called Henri Fantin-Latour (born January 14, 1836 in Grenoble , † August 25, 1904 in Buré (Orne) ) was a French painter and lithographer .

Life

He began his training first with his father Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour , then with Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran . The main focus of Boisbaudran's lessons was to train students' visual memory. From 1854 he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . He copied the paintings by Delacroix in the Musée du Luxembourg and the old masters in the Louvre . He sold these copies mainly to American and English customers. It was there that he met Edgar Degas in 1855 , Édouard Manet in 1857 and Berthe Morisot in 1858 . In 1859 James McNeill Whistler invited him to London, where he also got access to the English artistic circles through Alphonse Legros .

In 1859 he met Gustave Courbet , in whose studio he worked two years later. In 1863 he was one of the painters who were represented at the Salon des Refusés and the Paris Salon at the same time .

In September 1862, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, Alphonse Legros, James McNeill Whistler, Johan Barthold Jongkind , Félix Bracquemond and other artists became members of the newly founded “Société des Aquafortistes”. This artists' association had set itself the goal of promoting the art of etching. They published their own catalog.

In 1864 he exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In England his flower arrangements were particularly in demand, which he now increasingly painted.

Fantin-Latour's graphical way of thinking is essentially evident in dealing with Wagnerian topics (he visited Bayreuth in 1876). At this point in time, numerous artists were inspired by the works of Richard Wagner .

Although he was a contemporary of the Impressionists , he developed his own style, committed to realism . His flower pictures and group portraits of many contemporary Parisian painters and writers from his circle of friends became known. These include Hommage à Delacroix , Un atelier aux Batignolles and Un coin de table . His influence on the later art movement of symbolism was also significant . Fantin-Latour is also known for his lithographs in which he dealt with numerous well-known classical composers and their music.

In 1876 he married the painter Victoria Dubourg (1840–1926). From then on he spent the summers on the country estate of his wife's family in Buré in the Orne department in Lower Normandy , where he also died. Fantin-Latour is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.

Work (selection)

Portraits

Still life

Other paintings

Lithographs

drawings

literature

Web links

Commons : Henri Fantin-Latour  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Lecoq de Boisbaudran - Portail des collections des musées de France
  2. ^ Société des Aquafortistes. Eaux-fortes modern. Œuvres inédites et originales. Première Année. 1862-1863. Publisher: Cadart & Luquet, Paris