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Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836–1904
Bowl of Roses on a Marble Table
1885
During his first visit to England in 1859, Fantin-Latour met Edwin and Elizabeth Edwards, who championed his work and encouraged the production of his flower paintings. The composition of this still life, which once belonged to the couple, is subtly dynamic—the angle of the marble-topped table and the position of the red rose on the left lead our eyes into the picture space.
Image Caption
Henri Fantin-Latour, Bowl of Roses on a Marble Table, 1885, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.920
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 7/16 x 21 in. (36.7 x 53.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.920
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour.. Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour.. Paris: Henri Floury.. 1911.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Lucie-Smith, Edward. Fantin-Latour. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
The artist, sold or consigned to Edwards; Elizabeth Ruth Edwards (Mrs. Edwin Edwards), Sunbury-on-Thames, sold to Bryant; T. H. Bryant, London (by 1907, probably until d. 1913);¹ H. Bryant, London, his daughter, by descent; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 15 Dec. 1941]; Robert Sterling Clark (1941–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. Works from the estate of T. H. Bryant, probably this collector, appeared in a sale at Christie’s, London, on 21 July 1913, presumably indicating his approximate date of death.