Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)

Baigneuses

Details

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Fantin-Latour, H.
Baigneuses
signed 'Fantin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 x 32 in. (99.7 x 82 cm.)
Painted in 1899

Provenance

Gustave Tempelaere, Paris.
G. Lesieur; sale, Htel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1932, lot 12.
Lanneluc Sanson.
Madame de Plinval.
Hector Brame, Paris (1962).
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 30 March 1982, lot 144.

Literature

Mme Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 186, no. 1737.
L. Bndite, Les Artistes de Tous les temps, Srie D, Le XXme sicle, 1903, no. 37.

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1899, no. 760.
Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l'Oeuvre de Fantin-Latour, 1906, no. 203.

Lot Essay

The artist later painted over the pastel and the painting was then exhibited in 1899 as an oil.

This painting will be included in the catalogue raisonn of Fantin-Latour's paintings and pastels by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau now in preparation.

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