Live Auction 9160Impressionist and 19th Century Art (Day sale)
Lot 120

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

Nature morte, tasse, gobelet d'argent et coupe de champagne

Closed13 May 1999

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USD 107,000

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Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
Fantin-Latour, H.
Nature morte, tasse, gobelet d'argent et coupe de champagne
signed and dated 'Fantin 61' (lower center)
oil on canvas
13 x 18 in. (35 x 47 cm.)
Painted in 1861

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Edwards, London.
F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris.
Emile Lvy, Paris (1906).
Dr. Victor Simon, Paris; sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 10 June 1955, addenda no. 1.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Lord Astor of Hever (acquired from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 1990, lot 2.

Specialist note

Galerie Brame & Lorenceau will include this painting in their forthcoming Fantin-Latour catalogue raisonn.

Fantin-Latour met the Edwardses, the first owners of this painting, in 1861 through the introductions of the artists James McNeill Whistler and Mathew White Ridley. Mr. Edwards, a lawyer and an artist, acted as the artist's agent, patron and friend until his death in 1879, after which Mrs. Edwards continued to work actively on the artist's behalf.

After the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Mr. Edwards transported many still-life paintings from Fantin-Latour's Paris studio for sale in London where they met with great success. Consequently the demand among English collectors for Fantin-Latour's still-life subjects remained high, assuring the artist a welcome, regular income.