Deux jeunes femmes brodant et lisant

Details

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
Deux jeunes femmes brodant et lisant
signed and dated 'Fantin. 59' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid down on canvas
14 1/8 x 19¼ in. (36 x 49.5 cm.)
Painted in 1859

Provenance

Guillaume Régamey, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 1907.
A.M.J. Strauss, London.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London.
Fenwisk, London
Denise Boas, Paris.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (by 1965).

Literature

Mme Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 18, no. 115.
G. Kahn, Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1926, pl. 2 (illustrated; titled Intimité).

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., French 19th Century Paintings, December 1965.
Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Henri Fantin-Latour 1863-1904, April-June 1966, no. 2 (illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions, June-August 1992.

Sale room notice

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

Lot Essay

A later, larger version of this work belongs to the City Art Museum of St. Louis and is one of three that Fantin-Latour submitted to the Salon of 1859. This was his first submission and all three were rejected. Nathalie, the figure on the left, became gravely ill after this portrait was painted and was committed by her father to the Maison Nationale de Casenton after being diagnosed as suffering from mental illness.

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