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Property from a European collection HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (1836-1904) Roses signed and dated "Fanti...

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Property from a European collection HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (1836-1904) Roses signed and dated  Fanti...
Property from a European collection
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR
(1836-1904)
Roses
signed and dated
"Fantin 81" (upper right)
oil on canvas
8 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. (21.2 x 24.8 cm)
painted in 1881
Estimate: $250,000-300,000 <p>Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Edwards, London (patrons of the artist who encouraged him to paint floral subjects)
Obach & Cie., London
F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris
Bonjean, paris
Sir Wakefield, London (sale: Christie's, London, June 30, 1911, lot 53)
Etienne Bignou, Paris
E.J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (by 1962)
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired in 1966)
Anon. sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 19, 1989, lot 94
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner <p>Exhibited
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Flowers by Fantin-Latour, November-December, 1966, no. 24 (illustrated in color) <p>Literature
Mme. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 107, no. 134
Although he sought recognition as a portrait painter, Fantin-Latour enjoyed his greatest popular success with still-life subjects. He was especially celebrated for his skill in portraying roses, the favorite flower of the 19th century. Unlike his Impressionist contemporaries, Fantin-Latour preferred his studio to natural environments, and brought freshly picked varieties indoors to study their relationships of tones and colors. Applying techniques he had acquired in his study of Rococo art in the Louvre, Fantin-Latour combined the buildup of paint surfaces with colored glazes to achieve glimmering surfaces that, in the present painting, capture the essence of his subject with characteristic realism and sumptuous beauty.