id: 104596 accession number: 1922.76 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.76 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:51.253000 Homage to Rossini, 1902. Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904). Black chalk (or lithographic crayon?) with stumping; sheet: 38.2 x 36.9 cm (15 1/16 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King 1922.76 title: Homage to Rossini title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1902 creation date earliest: 1902 creation date latest: 1902 current location: creditline: Gift of Ralph King copyright: --- culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century technique: black chalk (or lithographic crayon?) with stumping department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Sheet: 38.2 x 36.9 cm (15 1/16 x 14 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: brown laid paper (lithographic transfer paper) watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections opening date: 1924-06-23T04:00:00 Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 23-October 23, 1924). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1937-02-10T05:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1940-07-11T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940). 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: Ingres & Delacroix through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art, 1800–1870 opening date: 1975-05-20T04:00:00 Ingres & Delacroix through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art, 1800–1870. Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (May 20-June 28, 1975). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exhibition of Lithographs and Painting by Fantin-Latour. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Dec. 1-15, 1925).', 'opening_date': '2015-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': '"Drawings in Gallery VIII." The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 10-Oct. 20, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-06-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': '"Drawings in Gallery VIII." The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 14-Dec. 5, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-06-14T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Victoria Fantin-Latour [1840-1926], Paris date: Probably 1904-? footnotes: citations: Ralph King [1855-1926], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: ?-1922 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1922- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fantin-Latour, Victoria. Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour. Paris: H. Floury, 1911. page number: Mentioned: p. 207, no. 1953 url: Fantin-Latour, Victoria. Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, Paris: H. Floury, 1911. page number: Mentioned: p. 207, no. 1953 url: T. S. "An Exhibition of Drawings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 7 (1924): 140-44. page number: Mentioned: p. 142 url: T. S. "Lithographs of Fantin-Latour." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 10 (1925): 161-62. page number: Mentioned: p. 161 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136879 F. A. W., T. S., and M. "In Memoriam: Ralph Thrall King." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 5 (1926): 95-111. page number: Mentioned: p. 97 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136926 Martin L. H. Reymert. Ingres & Delacroix Through Degas & Puvis De Chavannes: The Figure in French Art, 1800-1870. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1975. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 232-3, no. 137 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.76/1922.76_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.76/1922.76_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.76/1922.76_full.tif