Henri Fantin-Latour Paintings
Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 – 1904) was a French painter and lithographer born in Grenoble, Isère best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
As a child, he received drawing lessons from his father, who was an artist. In 1850 he entered the Ecole de Dessin, where he studied with Lecoq de Boisbaudran. After learning at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1854, he spends much time copying the works of the old masters in the Musée du Louvre. Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be related with Impressionism, including Whistler and Manet, Fantin's own work remained conservative in style.
In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow artist, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died on 25 August 1904.
References
96 artworks by or after Henri Fantin-Latour at the Art UK site
Henri-Fantin-Latour.org 273 works by Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour, Still Life, 1867, watercolor, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections