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Henri Fantin-Latour  (French, Grenoble 1836–1904 Buré)

Date:
1880
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 x 24 3/8 in. (50.8 x 61.9 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of Susan S. Dillon, 1997
Accession Number:
1997.347

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 824

  • Gallery Label

    By the time Fantin painted this work, he had established a steady demand in Britain for his exquisite paintings of informal flower arrangements, set in modest vases and seen against a neutral ground. The flowers in this picture were picked from his garden at Buré in Normandy.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (upper right): Fantin / Buré — Sept — / 1880.

  • Provenance

    Capt. J. A. D. Perrins (until 1957; his sale, Sotheby's, London, December 11, 1957, no. 130, for £3,500 to Patch); Patch (from 1957); [Alfred Daber, Paris]; Florence J. Gould (until d. 1985; her sale, Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 1985, no. 25, for $480,000 to Dillon); Susan S. Dillon, New York (from 1985)

  • References

    Susan Alyson Stein in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1997–1998." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 56 (Fall 1998), p. 49, ill. (color).



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