Fantin-Latour
Americannoun
noun
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They held out the tantalising prospect of freedom to her: she could have a visa, allowing her to leave Holland with her family, in exchange for a painting by the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
He praises Fantin-Latour, too, for his “Chardinesque” style, referring to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, an artist whose style of placing “touches of color next to each other” Van Gogh would take as his own.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
To signal to the establishment that they were to be taken seriously, Fantin-Latour rendered them in muted gray or black frock coats, with somber beards and impassive expressions, but that was not the only provocation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
He wrote to Fantin-Latour, “I had to empty my house and purify it from cellar to eaves.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
At this despised Salon were to be found the names of Manet, Monet, Whistler, Bracquemont, Jongkind, Fantin-Latour, Renoir, Legros, and many others who have since risen to fame.
From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair
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