Henri FANTIN-LATOUR (Grenoble 1836 - Bure 190... Lot n° 24

BOUQUET DE LYS ET DE ROSES DANS UN VASE, 1862 Oil on canvas Signed top right "Fantin Latour" Dated top left "1862" 45.8 x 38.5 cm Certificate from Messrs Brame and Lorenceau, Paris Provenance Former collections: J. Russell Buckler,London (Christie's London, March 1906, catalogue n°64) Obach and Co, London Peter Larsen, (Christie's London, February 1938, n°21) Jorge Anibal, Mendaro Nogoya, (Roldan and Cie, Buenos Aires, June 1976, no. 1) Peter Hecht Buenos Aires, 1985 (Sothebys New York, February 1986, no. 11) Galerie Dr Hans - Peter Bühler Münich (acquired from the previous gallery) Swiss collection, acquired from the previous gallery in 1986. Swiss Collection Bibliography Catalogue of Fantin-Latour's complete works by Madame Fantin-Latour, Floury éditeur, Paris, 1911, n°191. Exhibition Galerie Eine, Works from the 19th and 20th centuries, Munich 1986/87, illustrated on the cover of the catalogue. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 - 1904) is a French painter trained by his father, a portrait painter, from whom he acquired a great talent for this genre. He continued his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Familiar with the Louvre, he copied the Great Masters and became passionate about Venetian painting and its treatment of light, admiring Titian and Veronese in particular. He became friends with Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot and James Wihstler, who took him to England. It was around 1861, during his stay in England, that Fantin-Latour began seriously to paint still lifes in which flowers were omnipresent. His popularity grows with English collectors. He is considered the worthy successor of Chardin's still lifes and the Courbet realists. In his first still lifes, he shows a spontaneity, simplicity and realism that our painting is a very beautiful representation of. Gradually, our artist will transform his way of painting by impasto and by more melted contour