Lot 12
  • 12

Henri Fantin-Latour

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Fantin-Latour
  • Hommage à Eugène Delacroix
  • Signed Fantin (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 11 3/4 by 11 in.
  • 30 by 28 cm.
  • Painted in 1864.

Provenance

P.A. Chéramy (his sale: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, May 5-7, 1908, lot 197)
M. Linol, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Geneva
Private collection, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 27, 1957
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1989, lot 19
Private collection, Japan
Sale: Christie's East, New York, October 30, 2001, lot 105
Mark Murray, New York
Acquired from the above

Exhibited

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., XIX Century Selections, 1988, no. L7, illustrated in the catalogue
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, 1998, no. 7 

Literature

Madam Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Fantin Latour, Paris, 1911, no. 229, catalogued p. 33
Douglas Druick and Michel Hoog, Fantin-Latour (exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1983, pp. 172-173

Condition

The canvas has been lined. There is vertical craquelure throughout the work though the picture surface is otherwise in generally good condition. Under UV, inpainting is visible along the extreme edges and also scattered throughout the darks of the men's cloaks at left.
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