Henri fantin latour

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View Narcisses, giroflées et primevères (1881) By Fantin-Latour Henri; Oil on canvas; 14 7/8 by 11 1/2 in; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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The floral still life of roses enlivens the otherwise restrained palette used by the artist in this portrait. By the time he painted Madeleine Escudier Lerolle (1856–1937), wife of artist Henry Lerolle, the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour had established a steady clientele in Britain for his floral still lifes, arranged in modest vases and depicted against a neutral ground; he included such a still life in this portrait. Madeleine Lerolle and her daughter Yvonne are the subjects of another…

Our second last chapter in this year’s “The Gentle Art of Domesticity” draws our attention to Nature and how it inspires, parallels and brings life to an everyday domestic life. NATURAL PLEASURES “Nature forms a wonderful backdrop to domesticity. It’s like an external room with an ever changing wallpaper…” (page 226) “Nature can inspire the domestic artist not only with its visual treasures, but also with its sense of energy, its rhythms and its fundamental need for cycles and repetition…

“Between the idea and the reality; between the motion and the act; falls the shadow” (T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925). Early in his twenties, the French painter Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) befriended Impressionist contemporaries such as Whistler and Manet in w

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White Lilies, 1877, Henri Fantin-Latour.