Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

Nature morte, tasse, gobelet d'argent et coupe de champagne

Details

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
Fantin-Latour, H.
Nature morte, tasse, gobelet d'argent et coupe de champagne
signed and dated 'Fantin 61' (lower center)
oil on canvas
13 x 18 in. (35 x 47 cm.)
Painted in 1861

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Edwards, London.
F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris.
Emile Lvy, Paris (1906).
Dr. Victor Simon, Paris; sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 10 June 1955, addenda no. 1.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Lord Astor of Hever (acquired from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 1990, lot 2.

Literature

Mme Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 25, no. 179 (as Nature morte).

Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour, May-June 1906, no. 68 (as Tasse et Pichet).
Grenoble, Muse-Bibliothque de Grenoble, Centennaire de Henri Fantin-Latour, August-October 1936, no. 113.
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., XIXth & XXth Century French Masters, November-December 1955, p. 20, no. 23 (illustrated).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fantin-Latour, November 1982-September 1983, no. 27 (illustrated).
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, September-November 1998, no. 4 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Galerie Brame & Lorenceau will include this painting in their forthcoming Fantin-Latour catalogue raisonn.

Fantin-Latour met the Edwardses, the first owners of this painting, in 1861 through the introductions of the artists James McNeill Whistler and Mathew White Ridley. Mr. Edwards, a lawyer and an artist, acted as the artist's agent, patron and friend until his death in 1879, after which Mrs. Edwards continued to work actively on the artist's behalf.

After the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Mr. Edwards transported many still-life paintings from Fantin-Latour's Paris studio for sale in London where they met with great success. Consequently the demand among English collectors for Fantin-Latour's still-life subjects remained high, assuring the artist a welcome, regular income.

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