Henri Fantin-Latour 1861(Salon of 1861)
3' 3 1/4'' x 2' 8 3/4''(100 x 83cm)
Bequest of Mr.and Mrs.Raymond Koechlin,1931 The Reader(Marie Fantin-Latour,the Artist's Sister) French 1836-1904
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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.
