Para-Impressionism:

Henri Fantin-Latour

1836-1904

an artist related to the impressionists

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904): 1869-70, A studio at Batignolles (central: Manet painting Astruc; left to right: Scholderer, Renoir, Zola, Maître, Bazille, Monet), 204x273, Orsay (iR35;iR1;R1,p196;R88I,p19) =S1870-1000, Un atelier aux Batignolles — Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904): 1869-70, A studio at Batignolles (central: Manet painting Astruc; left to right: Scholderer, Renoir, Zola, Maître, Bazille, Monet), 204×273, Orsay (iR35;iR1;R1,p196;R88I,p19) =S1870-1000, Un atelier aux Batignolles

General info:
Born in Grenoble. Studied for a short while at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and with Courbet. Visited the Café Guerbois. Befriended with Manet and Whistler. At the Salon: 1859: rejected; 1861: debut; 1863: Salon des Réfusés; 1865: Hommage a Delacroix; 1867: Portrait of Manet. Had several contacts among the Impressionists. (R3,p661). 1870: painted his famous ‘A studio at Les Batignolles’. In that sense he belonged to the ‘impressionist’ art-movement. He painted many flower still-lives, probably one of them was exhibited at the famous exibition in New York in 1886. He also depicted many mythological themes. Painted merely in a realist style, not in an impressionist painting style.
Sources: R334/iR19; R16,p132/3. More info; more info in Dutch (=iR21); pictures.

Pictures:

Fantin-Latour: 1867, Édouard Manet, 118x90, AI Chicago (iR6;M20) — Fantin-Latour: 1867, Édouard Manet, 118×90, AI Chicago (iR6;M20)

Fantin-Latour (1836-1904): 1865, Vase of Flowers with a Coffee Cup, xx, (iR6)

Fantin-Latour (1836-1904): 1877, La Lecture, xx, MBA Lyon (iR6;M217)

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