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Fantin-Latour

American  
[fahn-tan-lah-toor] / fɑ̃ tɛ̃ lɑˈtur /

noun

  1. (Ignace) Henri (Joseph Théodore) 1836–1904, French painter.


Fantin-Latour British  
/ fɑ̃tɛ̃latur /

noun

  1. ( Ignace ) Henri ( Joseph Théodore ) (ɑ̃ri). 1836–1904, French painter, noted for his still lifes and portrait groups

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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

“They started this collection as a collection of 19th-century French art. To go from Henri Fantin-Latour to Olafur Eliasson is a pretty big jump.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017

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

His floral paintings, many undated or from the ’40s, were lovely, but not as vivid or virtuosic as flower paintings by Manet, Fantin-Latour, van Gogh, Vuillard or Bonnard.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2014

Ma�tre From a painting by Fantin-Latour In spite of the assiduous study of Dutch and Italian masters, Fantin's work is characteristically French in both its fantasy and its realism.

From Artists Past and Present Random Studies by Cary, Elisabeth Luther

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