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Description: | This small-scale painting represents a woman, whose bright orange dress, illuminated through a gap in the trees, contrasts with the dark green of the forest surrounding her. Although the woman's body is painted towards the viewer, her head is turned away, unconscious of the viewer, her eyes upon a distant point. Fantin-Latour studied under his father and later with Horace Lecoque de Boisboudran, one of the most famous teachers of his day. He was influenced by Courbet and worked in his studio in 1862. He suffered refusal at the Salon of 1859 and exhibited at the Salon des Refusés in 1863. He is known for his romantic figure subjects, portraits and flower pieces and executed many splendid lithographs. His work was widely admired in Britain and much collected. Fantin-Latour produced 89 lithographs between 1876 and 1889, inspired by the Wagnerian festival held in Bayreuth in the spring of 1876. These prints formed the core of Fantin's imaginative paintings, and this may be one of them, as many of the lithographs represented nymphs or women standing in a similar woody yet undefined landscape. The background, though reminiscent of Fantin-Latour's works, is less refined. | Subjects: | figure; landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Fantin-Latour, Henri (French painter and printmaker, 1836-1904) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8446... | Go to resource |
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