Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Ophélie
signed 'Fantin' (lower left)
oil on canvas
17½ x 12½ in. (44.4 x 31.7 cm.)
Painted in 1900
Provenance
Gustave Tempelaere, Paris.
Henri Darasse; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 December 1909, lot 35.
Javal (acquired from the previous sale).
Anon. sale, Phillips, London, 17 March 1992, lot 157.
Literature
Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1936, p. 195, no. 1834.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour, 1906, no. 161.
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, 23 September-8 November 1988, no. 43.
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.