Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour, 1836 Grenoble -... Lot 552

Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour, 1836 Grenoble - 1904 Buré STUDY OF A BOY Naked WOMAN Oil on canvas. Doubled. 37 x 22 cm. Signed and dated "Fantin. (18)74“. Verso old sticker from Amsterdam with artist and title. In splendid frame. In a brown interior a young naked woman to the right, sitting on a white cloth or dress, lying on a red chaise longue, on whose cushion she has laid her right arm. She has raised her left hand to her face. She has brown hair, partly pinned up, and seems to be wearing an earring. Quality study in a loose brushstroke with restrained colouring. Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter who was trained by his father, a portraitist. From 1854 he continued his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, regularly visiting the Louvre where he copied great masters. Here he developed an enthusiasm for Venetian painting, especially that of Tiziano Vecellio (1485/89-1576) and Paolo Veronese (1528-1588). He made friends with Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) and later with James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), who took him to England and introduced him to a clientele that was enthusiastic about his still lifes, especially the flower still lifes. A friend of the realistic painter Gustave Courbet (1819-187) and the Impressionists, he nevertheless retained his own style and oriented his painting towards group portraits, the most famous of which are kept in the Musée d'Orsay. He later retreated to Buré in Normandy, where he devoted himself almost exclusively to the bouquets he picked in his garden. (1241322) (1) (18) Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour, 1836 Grenoble - 1904 Buré STUDY OF A YOUNG NAKED WOMAN Oil on canvas Relined. 37 x 22 cm. Signed and dated "Fantin. (18)74" top left. Old label from Amsterdam with artist name and title on the reverse. In magnificent frame. The