Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

Details

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

La Verité

oil on canvas, heightened with pastel
94 x 69 cm

Painted in 1891

Provenance

With F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris
Collection K. Groesbeek, Amsterdam (his sale: Frederik Muller Amsterdam, April 17-25, 1956, lot 195)
E.J. van Wisseling and Co., Amsterdam

Literature

Adolphe Julien, Fantin Latour: sa Vie et ses Amitiés, Paris, 1909, p. 208
Madame Fantin Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 151, no. 1435

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1891, no. 1901
Toulouse, 1893
Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Retrospective de l'oeuvre de Fantin Latour, 1906, cat.no. 237
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel, E.J. van Wisselingh and Co., Exposition de Peinture Française, Ecole Dix-Neuvième siecle, 10 April -9 May 1929, cat.no. 27 (illus.)
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh and Co., 1938, no. 8

Lot Essay

Klaas Groesbeek has been a representative for the art dealer Van Wisselingh and Co. in Amsterdam between 1890-92.
In 1892 he became manager

This lot will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Fantin-Latour's paintings and pastels being prepared by Galerie Brame et Lorenceau

Painted in 1891

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