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Henri Fantin-Latour · 1904
Henri Fantin-Latour: 1836–1904
Other names (19)
Fantin, Fantin-Latour, fantin latour henri, fantin latour h.j.t., Henri Fantin, Henri Fantin Latour, Henri-Jean-Theodore Fantin-Latour, Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour, Henry Fantin-Latour, H. Fantin-Latour, h.j.t. fantin latour, h.j.t.f. latour, Ignace Henri Fantin-Latour, Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri J. Th. Fantin-Latour, I. H. J. Th. Fantin-Latour, I.-J.-Th.-Henri Fantin-Latour, J.-H. Fantin-Latour, J. Th. fantin-latour
Biography
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi fɑ̃tɛ̃ latuʁ]; 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
Born in Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour first had drawing lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805–1875), who was a painter. In 1850 he 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 teaching method based on painting and drawing from memory.
He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, in 1854, where he had for classmates, Edgar Degas, Alphonse Legros and Jean-Charles Cazin. After studying there, he spent long time copying the works of the old masters in the Musée du Louvre. Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be associated with Impressionism, including Whistler and Manet, his own work remained conservative in style.
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Influenced by
- Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudraneditorial inference
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- Théodore Fantin-Latoureditorial inference
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- Thomas Coutureeditorial inference
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Later influence
- Odilon Redoneditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Henri Fantin-Latour. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art103 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago76 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art31 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay18 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble12 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art11 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims — Reims6 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum5 recorded works
- Tate5 recorded works
- Hermitage Museum2 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art2 recorded works
- musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg — Strasbourg2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Pau2 recorded works
- château musée de Nemours — Nemours1 recorded work
- Fitzwilliam Museum1 recorded work
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts Antoine Lécuyer — Saint-Quentin1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- Musée du Louvre1 recorded work
- musée Gallé-Juillet — Creil1 recorded work
- musée Gustave Courbet — Ornans1 recorded work
- musée Mainssieux — Voiron1 recorded work
- musée national du château de Compiègne — Compiègne1 recorded work
- National Museum of Asian Art1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Tate Collection metadata (October 2014 snapshot)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
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