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accession number: 1916.1038
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Tannhäuser, 1886. Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904). Oil on canvas; framed: 123.5 x 139.5 x 14 cm (48 5/8 x 54 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 86.4 x 103.3 cm (34 x 40 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1038
title: Tannhäuser
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creation date: 1886
creation date earliest: 1886
creation date latest: 1886
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creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) - artist
At the age of ten, Henri Fantin-Latour began painting with his father, Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875). In 1850 he left Grenoble and moved to Paris to study under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1802-1897), an innovative and nontraditional instructor who developed and published his own unique teaching method based on painting and drawing from memory. Fantin studied with him for six years and then attended the École des Beaux-Arts for less than a year in 1854. Encouraged by J. A. M. Whistler (1834-1903), whom he met in 1858 at the Louvre, Fantin-Latour made several trips to London from 1859 to 1881, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy. London collectors appreciated his still lifes, and he began accepting numerous portrait commissions from English patrons. It was in London, through Whistler's brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), that Fantin first learned to etch. After his first Salon submissions were rejected in 1859, Fantin, in an effort to become better known in France, began exhibiting with his friend Manet (q.v.) and future impressionists Renoir (q.v.) and Monet (q.v.). In 1865 Fantin wrote collector Edwin Edwards: "We form a group and make noise because there are lots of painters about and one is easily overlooked. When we get together . . . we gain strength in numbers and grow more adventurous. I thought it could last. That was my mistake." Unlike the realists and the impressionists, Fantin did not paint out of doors; rather, he preferred literary subjects, still lifes, and portraits that could be painted in his studio. In addition to portraits and still lifes, he made numerous paintings and more than 150 prints that were fantasy works and dream visions, paving the way for symbolist artists. These works were inspired by allegorical and mythological subjects as well as motivated by contemporary German composers such as Schumann and Wagner. After Fantin's death in 1904, critic René-Marc Ferry wrote: "when he found realism too limited and stifling, he lost himself in dreams, but his dreams went no further than the windows of his studio. Deep down, he was first and foremost a studio artist."1
1. Druick and Hoog 1982, 28.
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measurements: Framed: 123.5 x 139.5 x 14 cm (48 5/8 x 54 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 86.4 x 103.3 cm (34 x 40 11/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: Fantin 86
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections
opening date: 1942-01-06T05:00:00
French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).
title: 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans
opening date: 1943-06-22T04:00:00
19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).
title: The Venetian Tradition
opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).
title: Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition
opening date: 1965-11-04T05:00:00
Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (November 4, 1965-January 2, 1966).
title: Henri Fantin-Latour
opening date: 1966-04-28T04:00:00
Henri Fantin-Latour. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (April 28-June 6, 1966).
title: Richard Wagner: Visions d'artistes. D'Auguste Renoir à Anselm Kiefer
opening date: 2005-09-22T00:00:00
Richard Wagner: Visions d'artistes. D'Auguste Renoir à Anselm Kiefer. Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (September 22, 2005-January 29, 2006).
title: Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889
opening date: 2009-10-04T00:00:00
Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 18, 2010); Van Gogh Museum, 1070 AJ Amsterdam, Netherlands (February 18-June 6, 2010).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Salon. Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France. (1886).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Liverpool Autumn Exhibition. Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, United Kingdom (1888).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1889. Paris, France (1889).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': "World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago, IL. (1893).", 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Art Loan Exposition under the Auspices of the Cleveland School of Art. Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland, OH (1913).', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, February 21, 1890 (stock number 2636),
date: 1890
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Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, March 6, 1890 (stock number 1000)
date: 1890
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(Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, January 4, 1891, sold to J. H. Wade)
date: 1890-1891
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Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Wade, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1891-1916
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1916-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Illustrated Catalogue of the Liverpool Corporation Autumn Exhibition of Pictures at the Walker Art Gallery, 1888. Liverpool, United Kingdom: D. Marples, 1888.
page number: Mentioned: p. 36
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Jullien, Adolphe. Fantin-Latour, sa vie et ses amitiés; lettres inédites et souvenirs personnels, avec cinquante-trois reproductions d'œuvres du maitre, tirées a part, six autographes et vingt-deux illustrations dans le texte. Paris, France: L. Laveur, 1909.
page number: Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned p. 205
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Fantin-Latour, Victoria. Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, établi et rédigé. Paris: H. Floury, 1911.
page number: Mentioned: P. 130, no. 1254
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Warner, Langdon. "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art IV, no. 1 (January, 1917): 3-8.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced: p. 11
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"The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3; reproduced: p. 7
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136053
McK., W. McC. "Fantin-Latour Lithographs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 9 (1920): 135-38.
page number: Mentioned: p. 136
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136419
Gibson, Frank F. The Art of Henri Fantin-Latour: His Life and Work. London, United Kingdom: Drane's Ltd, 1924.
page number: Reproduced: p. 65; Mentioned: p. 212-213
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n30
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
page number: Reproduced: p. 36
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n40
Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College,1955.
page number: Reproduced: V. 2, P. 251
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 500
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n92
Curry, Larry. "Henri Fantin-Latour's Tannhauser on Venusberg." Bulletin/Los Angeles County Museum of Art XVI, no. 1 (1964): 3-19.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P.16-18
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 171
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n194
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1915-1965. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts,1966.
page number: Reproduced: no. 23
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Henri Fantin-Latour, 1836-1904; An Exhibition. Northhampton, MA: Smith College, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: no. 21
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Trapp, Frank Anderson. "Fantin-Latour at Smith College." The Burlington Magazine 108, no. 760 (July 1966): 393-94.
page number: Reproduced: P. 394, fig. 80
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/875039.
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 171
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n194
Druick, Douglas W. and Michel Hoog. Fantin-Latour: Exhibition. Ottawa, Ontario: National Gallery of Canada, 1983.
page number: Reproduced: p. 278
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Wardius, Janine N. "Fantin-Latour's Tannhauser Unveiled: The Previous State of the Painting as Revealed by Infrared Photography." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXVI, no.10 (October, 1989): 280-291.
page number: Reproduced: p. 208
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: P.74
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D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98
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Sérié, Pierre, Bruno Foucart, and Peter Cooke. La Peinture d'Histoire en France, 1860-1900: La Lyre Ou le Poignard. Paris, France: Arthena Editions, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 423-424
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