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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Fantin-Latour is best known for his still life paintings of flowers. This work with its light background and loose application of paint and less well-defined flowers is typical of his later style. He was popular with British collectors during his lifetime. After meeting James McNeill Whistler in 1858, Fantin-Latour made sevearl trips to England (1859, 1861, 1864, 1881) and exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, from 1862 to 1900. Despite his strong associations with the Impressionists, rather than making plein-air studies, he cut flowers and brought cut flowers indoors to paint in the studio. He was particularly interested in relationships of tones and colours in his floral bouquets, combining botanical precision with a strong emphasis on overall pictorial effect. The work was described as a fake when valued by Christie's. | Subjects: | still life (flowers) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Fantin-Latour, Henri (French painter and printmaker, 1836-1904) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8370... | Go to resource |
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