Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer.
Born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers.
Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England.
In addition to his paintings, Fantin-Latour created ingenious lithographs demonstrati...
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Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer.
Born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers.
Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England.
In addition to his paintings, Fantin-Latour created ingenious lithographs demonstrating the music of some of the great classical composers.
In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Basse-Normandie, where he died of lyme disease.
He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
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