Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
Baigneuses (La confidence)
signed 'Fantin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 21 in. (46.3 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1896
Provenance
Gustave Tempelaere, Paris.
Allard et Nol, Paris.
F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris.
Tedesco Frres.
Louis Baudoin; sale, Htel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1913, lot 35.
Flix Grard (1913).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 12 March 1989, lot 544.
Literature
Mme Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 172, no. 1620 (as Baigneuses).
Exhibited
Bziers, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Collections Prives de Bziers, 1967, no. 93.
Sale room notice
Please note that this work was sold in Sotheby's Monaco on 3 December 1989 and not as stated in the catalogue.
Lot Essay
Galerie Brame & Lorenceau will include this painting in their forthcoming Fantin-Latour catalogue raisonn.