Henri Fantin-Latour* (1836-1904)

Auto-Portrait (Self Portrait)

细节

Henri Fantin-Latour* (1836-1904)
Auto-Portrait (Self Portrait)
signed 'Fantin.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 13 in. (36.8 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1861

来源

F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris (by 1906)
Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris
Galerie Heinemann, Munich
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Senator Antonio Santamarina, Buenos Aires; sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 April 1974, lot 5 (illustrated in color)
Stephen Hahn, New York (acquired from the above sale)
E.V. Thaw, New York (acquired by the present owner, 1977)

出版

Mme. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, no. 171 (titled Portrait de Fantin).

展览

Paris, Galerie Tempelaere, Exposition de l'atelier de Fantin-Latour, 1905.
Paris, Palais de l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour, May-June 1906, no. 4.
Paris, Galerie Nationales du Grand Palais; Ottawa, Galerie Nationale du Canada; and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Fantin-Latour: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1982-September 1983, no. 13 (illustrated).

拍品专文

Fantin-Latour was only twenty-five years old when he painted this self portrait and it constitutes one of his last in the series of images that had occupied his oeuvre from 1854. In the present painting we can see a foreshadowing of the precise draftsmanship and powers of keen observation that characterize his later still lifes. Fantin was an admirer of Rembrandt, emulating the somber harmonies of his palette and the psychological intimacy of his subjects in his own likeness. In Auto-Portrait he presents an solitary image of "introverted romanticism" (D. Druick, Fantin-Latour, A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., op.cit., 1983, p. 72). As with his Portrait of Alphonse Legros (lot ), the pose and lighting of the self-portrait imbue it with drama. When Fantin was asked years later why he had focused on the self-portrait as subject for his paintings during this period he replied, "(the artist) is a model who is always ready, offering all the advantages; he comes on time, he does what you tell him, and you already know him before you start to paint him" (Quoted in Exposition de l'oevure de Fantin-Latour, exh. cat., op. cit., 1906, Paris, p. 17).

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