id: 150851 accession number: 1982.256 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.256 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:49.256000 Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867. Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904). Oil on fabric; framed: 65.1 x 57.2 x 7.6 cm (25 5/8 x 22 1/2 x 3 in.); unframed: 50.2 x 42.2 cm (19 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lewis C. Williams 1982.256 title: Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1867 creation date earliest: 1867 creation date latest: 1867 current location: creditline: Gift of Lewis C. Williams 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: 65.1 x 57.2 x 7.6 cm (25 5/8 x 22 1/2 x 3 in.); Unframed: 50.2 x 42.2 cm (19 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed upper left: Fantin. 67 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Fantin-Latour. Museum of French Art, New York, NY (1932).', 'opening_date': '1932-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Fantin-Latour 1836-1904. Grand Palais, Paris, France (November 9, 1982-February 7, 1983); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (March 17-May 22,1983); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA. (June 18-September 6, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1983-06-18T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Duchesse de Fitz-James [1830-1915], Château de la Lorie, Maine-et-Loire. Féral, Paris. date: footnotes: citations: (F & J Tempelaere, Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: (Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY) date: 1926-1929 footnotes: citations: Possibly Chester Dale [1883-1962], Washington DC date: 1929 footnotes: citations: (C. W. Kraushaar, New York, NY, sold to Lewis B. Williams) date: 1932 footnotes: citations: Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, OH, by descent to Lewis C. Williams date: 1932-1982 footnotes: citations: Lewis C. Williams, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1982 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1982- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Mentioned: pgs. 31,33,197 url: Fantin-Latour, Victoria. Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, établi et rédigé. Paris, France: H. Floury, 1911. page number: Mentioned: no. 303 url: Gibson, Frank F. The Art of Henri Fantin-Latour: His Life and Work. London, United Kindgom: Drane's Ltd, 1924. page number: Reproduced: p. 53 url: The International Studio 37 (June 1926): 37. page number: Reproduced: P. 37 url: Topas, J. “Fantin-Latour, 1865-1904.” Art in America 17 (December 1928): 25–30. page number: Reproduced: P. 27 url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. page number: Reproduced: p. 258-259; vol. II url: Verrier, Michelle. Fantin-Latour. New York: Harmony Books, 1978. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21 url: Druick, Douglas and Michel Hoog. Fantin-Latour: Exhibition. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1983. page number: url: Turner, Evan H. " Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXI, no. 2 (February, 1984): 39-79. page number: Reproduced: p. 62, fig. 78 url: "1990 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 4 (1991): 151-219. page number: Mentioned: p. 172 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161322 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 url: D'Argencourt, Loyuise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museumof Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of art, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 95 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.256/1982.256_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.256/1982.256_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.256/1982.256_full.tif