

HENRI FANTIN-Latour (1836-1904)
Giroflées et cerisier sauvage en fleurs
Details
HENRI FANTIN-Latour (1836-1904)
Giroflées et cerisier sauvage en fleurs
signed and dated ‘Fantin, 76’ (upper left)
oil on canvas
19 ³/₈ x 17 ¹/₂ in. (49.1 x 44.5 cm.)
Painted in 1876
Giroflées et cerisier sauvage en fleurs
signed and dated ‘Fantin, 76’ (upper left)
oil on canvas
19 ³/₈ x 17 ¹/₂ in. (49.1 x 44.5 cm.)
Painted in 1876
Provenance
Edwin Edwards, London.
Felicity Dawson, London; her sale; Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 1957, lot 128.
Mr and Mrs Francis Hock, London, by whom acquired at the above sale through the agency of Dr. W. Katz, Mayfair.
Private Collection, Switzerland, and thence by descent.
Simon Dickinson, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Felicity Dawson, London; her sale; Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 1957, lot 128.
Mr and Mrs Francis Hock, London, by whom acquired at the above sale through the agency of Dr. W. Katz, Mayfair.
Private Collection, Switzerland, and thence by descent.
Simon Dickinson, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
V. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, no. 753 bis.
V. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1969,
p. 85, no. 782 (titled ‘Fleurs’).
V. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1969,
p. 85, no. 782 (titled ‘Fleurs’).
Exhibition
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Fantin Latour, 1877, no. 74.
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Fantin-Latour, La réalité au rêve, June – October 2007, no. 46, pp. 98 and 184 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Fantin-Latour, La réalité au rêve, June – October 2007, no. 46, pp. 98 and 184 (illustrated).
Further details
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity form Philippe Brame confirming that it will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonnné des peintures et pastels de Henri Fantin-Latour currently in preparation by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau.
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