Lot 139
  • 139

Henri Fantin-Latour

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri Fantin-Latour
  • La toilette
  • signed Fantin (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 26 1/4 by 22 in.
  • 66.8 by 56 cm

Provenance

Gustave Tempelaere, Paris
Hector Brame, Paris
Pacitti
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Sale: Palais Galleria, Paris, June 2, 1971, lot 56
Sale: Palais Galleria, Paris, March 16, 1972, lot 67
Sale: Palais Galleria, Paris, October 31, 1975, lot 132
Sale: H�tel Drouot, Paris, June 26, 1986, lot 58
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 2, 2001, lot 27, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

 

Exhibited

Utsunomiya, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, September 23-November 8, 1998, no. 35

Literature

Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1936, p. 173, no. 1631

Condition

Unlined; under UV: strokes of inpainting to face of standing woman on left, dots of inpainting to face of seated nude, dots and dashes of inpainting in drapery behind the figures, line of inpainting to kneeling woman's chin, dots of inpainting to background surrounding the leftmost figures.
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