Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Hommage á Delacroix
signed 'Fantin.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
11 5/8 x 10 7/8 in. (29.5 x 27.7 cm.)
Painted in 1864
Provenance
Chéramy; his sale, Paris, 5 May 1908, lot 197.
Linol, Paris (acquired from the previous sale).
Galerie des Beaux Arts, Geneva.
Private collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 December 1957.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 1989, lot 19.
Literature
Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1936, p. 33, no. 229.
Exhibited
New York, Salander O'Reilly Gallery, XIX Century Selection, 1988, no. 17.
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, 23 September-8 November 1988, no. 7.
Lot Essay
This painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Fantin-Latour's paintings and pastels by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau now in preparation.