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Biography of Henri Fantin-Latour

French painter and printmaker
born 14 January 1836 - died 28 August 1904
Born in: Grenoble (Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France).
Died in: Basse-Normandie (France)
Also known as: Ignace-Henri Jean Theodore Fantin Latour

Student of: Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Thomas Couture (1815-1879), Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1802-1897).
Husband of: Victoria Dubourg Fantin Latour (1840-1926) from 1876.
Friend of: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

Biography: Fantin Latour, IGNACE HENRI JEAN THEODORE (1836-1904), French flowers artist, was born at Grenoble on the 14th of January 1836. Henri Fantin stsignature er, a pastel painter, and then at the drawing school of [Horace] Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and later under Couture. Henri Fantin Latour was the friend of Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet and others. The artist exhibited in the Salon of 1861, and many of more important art of Henri appeared on its walls in later years, though 1863 found him with Harpignies, Manet, Legros and Whistler in the Salon des Refuses. Whistler introduced him to English flowersic circles, and La Tour artist lived for some time in England, many of portraits and roses pieces being in English galleries.

His portrait groups, arranged somewhat after the manner of the Dutch masters, are as interesting from their subjects as they are from the flowersic point of view. Hommage à Delacroix showed portraits of Whistler and Legros, Baudelaire, Champfleury and himself; Un Atelier à Batignolles gave portraits of Monet, Manet, Zola and Renoir, and is now in the Luxembourg; Un Coin de table presented Verlaine, Rimbaud, Camille, Péladan and others; and Autour du Piano contained portraits of Chabrier, D'Indy and other musicians. La Tour paintings roses are perfect examples of the art, and form perhaps the most famous section of still life painting in England. In later years Fantin-latour devoted much attention to lithography, which had occupied him as early as 1862, but his examples were then considered so revolutionary, with their strong lights and black shadows, that the printer refused to execute them. After L'Anniversaire in honour of Berlioz in the Salon of 1876, artist Henri regularly exhibited lithographs, some of which wore excellent examples of delicate portraiture, others being elusive and imaginative drawings illustrative of the music of Wagner (whose cause Henri art championed in Paris as early as 1864), Berlioz, Brahms and other composers. Henri artist illustrated Adolphe Juiliens Wagner (1886) and Berlioz (1888). There are excellent collections of his lithographic work at Dresden, in the British Museum, and a practically complete set given by his widow to the Louvre. Some were also exhibited at South Kensington in 1898-1899, and at the Dutch gallery in 1904.

In 1876, Fantin La Tour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which the flower artist spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Basse-Normandie, where he died on the 28th of August 1904. La Tour artist was buried at the cemetery in Montparnasse.
A catalogue of the lithographs of Henry Fantin was drawn up by Germain Hediard in Les Maitres de la lithographie (1898-1899). A volume of reproductions, in a limited edition, was published (Paris, 1907) as L'oeuvre lithographigue.