Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Toilette de Vénus
signed 'Fantin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9¾ x 11 3/8 in. (24.8 x 28.8 cm.)
Painted in 1904
Provenance
Gustave Tempelaere, Paris.
Reid & Lefevre, London.
Thos Gligg, Glasgow.
J. M. Cargher; his sale, Christie's, London, 6 April 1951, lot 10.
Lessore, Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1951.
Alexandre Neprel.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, October 1989, lot 16.
Literature
Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1936, p. 217, no. 2040.
Exhibited
Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1966.
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts.
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, 23 September-8 November 1998, no. 57.
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.