Author(s):
anonymous, photographer
production date: between 1890 and 1904
type(s) of object(s): photography, graphic arts
name(s): photography
materials and techniques: aristotype
place(s) of execution/production: paris
dimensions - artwork:
height: 8. 1cm
width: 11. 7cm
description:
unmounted print
marks, inscriptions, hallmarks:
stamp - on the front of the image, at the top in the middle, oval stamp in black ink from the musée carnavalet. \ inscription in ink
iconographic description:
portrait of fantin-latour. Fantin-latour in his studio sits in profile in front of an easel; the artist holds a palette and brushes in his left hand. Frontal gaze. Historical commentary:
fantin-latour (ignace-henri-joseph-théodore), french painter, was born in 1836 in grenoble and died in 1904 in buré. Student of courbet. Fantin-latour is both chardin and delacroix, the dutch and the romantics. Among his works: homage to delacroix (1865) and the toast (1865), two paintings depicting well-known writers and artists. From 1878 to 1883 he exhibited potraits, lithographs, drawings and paintings, produced under the musical influence of schumann, berlioz and wagner. In 1888, he executed eight lithographs intended to illustrate hector berlioz by adolphe julien. "since then, we can read in the larousse of the 20th century, he never stopped capturing on canvas some of his favorite dreams: nights, dreams, enchanted landscapes populated by heroes. . . "
institution: carnavalet museum, history of paris
inventory number: ph8825. Date: between 1890 and 1904.
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