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Henri Fantin-Latour
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
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culture · French painter (1836–1904) · painter · botanical illustrator · lithographer · graphic artist · printmaker · visual artist · also Henri Fantin-Latour, Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Fantin-Latour, Henri Fantin, Fantin
Born 14 January 1836 · Died 25 August 1904 · Q310715
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2026· 1 entry
2016· 1 entry
Artnet: In Brooklyn, Henri Fantin-Latour Masters Modern Lighting
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2011· 1 entry
BBC: Henri Fantin-Latour painting 'could fetch £500,000'
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-08-25.
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1889· 1 entry
One of his still lifes with roses sold by 2,000 guilders, a considerable sum back then
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1876· 2 entries
Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, whom he met when both were copying the same painting at the Louvre
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Fantin-Latour attended a performance of the Ring cycle at Bayreuth, which he found particularly moving
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1867· 1 entry
Was also one of the nine members of the Japanese Jinglar Society, along with Carolus-Duran, who painted his portrait twice in 1861, and the ceramists Bracquemond and Solon, who they met at dinner in the Japanese style
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1865· 2 entries
“We form a group and make noise because there are many painters and one is easily forgotten. When we come together... we grow in numbers and become more adventurous. I thought it could last, it was my mistake”
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Wrote to Edwin Edwards : “We form a group and make noise because there are many painters and one is easily forgotten
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1862· 1 entry
One of his still lifes was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London
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1861· 1 entry
Briefly frequented the studio of Gustave Courbet
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1859· 1 entry
Fantin-Latour began exhibiting with his friend Édouard Manet and the future Impressionists Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
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1858· 1 entry
At the Louvre, he made several stays in London from 1859 to 1881
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1854· 1 entry
Where he had for classmates, Edgar Degas, Alphonse Legros and Jean-Charles Cazin
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1850· 1 entry
Moved to Paris where he enrolled in the small Paris School of Drawing, where he studied with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, an innovative and non-traditional instructor who developed his own te
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-01-14.
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