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’ and received a medal. In that sense he belonged to the ‘impressionist’ art-movement.
In 1875 he received a 2nd class medal at the Salon. He was appointed in the Légion d’Honneur in 1879 as Chevalier and in 1900 as Officier.
Exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 hors concours. He was present at the Centennial exposition in 1900.
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; R337/1901. 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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