Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour* (French, 1836-1904)

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Details

Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour* (French, 1836-1904)

La Nuit

signed 'Fantin' upper right--oil on canvas
28 x 13in. (71.2 x 33.1cm.)

Provenance

Edmond Maître
With Galerie Tempelaere, Paris
Georges Feydeau, sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 4, 1903, lot 13
Dr. B. Matsuda, sale; Sotheby's, New York, January 14, 1977, lot 193
Anon., sale; Sotheby's, New York, October 27, 1988, lot 25

Literature

F. Wedmore, Pall Mall Gazette, May-August, 1903, illustrated
Mme. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 60, no. 464 (as also dated '71)

Lot Essay

Painted in 1869 and modified in 1871. La Nuit is one of two surviving fragments from Reflets d'Orient, rejected by the Salon of 1869.

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