Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Venus et l'amour
signed 'Fantin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 5/8 x 20¼ in. (62.5 x 51.4 cm.)
Painted in 1902
Provenance
Gustave Tempeleare, Paris.
George Bernheim.
Dieterle.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1987, lot 41.
Literature
Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de L'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1936, p. 204, no. 1913.
Exhibited
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, 23 September-8 November 1998, no. 48.
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.