id: 144756 accession number: 1969.54 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.54 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:24.832000 Madame Lerolle, 1882. Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904). Oil on fabric; framed: 132.4 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (52 1/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); unframed: 108.2 x 78.9 cm (42 5/8 x 31 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange 1969.54 title: Madame Lerolle title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1882 creation date earliest: 1882 creation date latest: 1882 current location: 220 19th Century European creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting 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: Framed: 132.4 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (52 1/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 108.2 x 78.9 cm (42 5/8 x 31 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: Fantin / 1882 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Henri Fantin-Latour: Painter of Intimacy (1836-1904) opening date: 2009-06-26T00:00:00 Henri Fantin-Latour: Painter of Intimacy (1836-1904). Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (June 26-September 6, 2009); Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (September 28, 2009-January 10, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Paris, Palais de l'Industrie. Salon (1882), no. 1007, Hors Concours. Portrait de Mme H. L . . .", 'opening_date': None} * {'description': "Paris, Palais de l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour (1906), no. 49, appartient à Henri Lerolle.", 'opening_date': '1906-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paris, La Renaissance. Portraits et figures de femmes, Ingres à Picasso (1928), no. 70, Portrait de Mme Henri Lerolle, appartient à Henri Lerolle.', 'opening_date': '1928-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paris, Grand Palais; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Fantin-Latour (1982-83), 322, 324, 327, 367-69, no. 137 bis (repr.) (shown only in Ottawa and San Francisco).', 'opening_date': '1982-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA (organizer). Beijing World Art Museum, China, May 26 - Aug. 27, 2006; Mori Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan: Sept. 9 - Nov. 26, 2006; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Feb. 21-June 1, 2008; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, June 22 - September 21, 2008; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2006-05-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (6/18/2009 - 9/6/2009) and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (9/28/2009 - 1/10/2010): "Henri Fantin-Latour: Painter of Intimacy (1836-1904)"', 'opening_date': '2009-06-18T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Family of the sitter. Hector Brame, Paris. Purchased by the CMA on 10 May 1969. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bénédite, Léonce. Fantin-Latour; étude critique, catalogue des oeuvres conservées dans les musées, liste des oeuvres exposées aux salons - Fantin-Latour lithographe, catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographié et gravé. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1903. page number: Reproduced: p. 32 url: Bénédite, Léonce. . L'œuvre de Fantin-Latour; recueil de cinquante reproductions d'après les principaux chefs-d'œuvre du maître réunis à l'occasion de l'exposition organisée à l'École nationale des beaux-arts, sous le patronage de m. le ministre de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts et de m. le sous-secrétaire d'état des beaux-arts. Paris: Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, 1906. page number: Plate 19 url: 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: L. Laveur, 1909. page number: Reproduced: p. [105] url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 211 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n231 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 264-267, Vol. I, no. 96 url: Alsdorf, Bridget. "Manet's Fleurs du Mal." In Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years. Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Lynn, eds., 128-145. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 138-139 url: Lerolle, Aggy. Henry Lerolle: Paris 1848-1929. Willaupuis, Belgium: Wapica; Paris: Société des Amis d'Henry Lerolle, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-45 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.54/1969.54_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.54/1969.54_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.54/1969.54_full.tif