Bouquet of Roses

1879

Henri Fantin-Latour

Associated Names
Henri Fantin-Latour

Artist, French, 1836 - 1904

The image shows a black and white illustration of a bouquet of large flowers in a glass vase. The flowers have round, full petals with some leaves visible. Two smaller fallen flowers are below the vase. The illustration is in shades of black, white, and grey for depth. The main bouquet is slightly off-center towards the upper portion of the image, with the vase's base near the bottom center. The fallen flowers and a stem are at the lower left.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph (proof) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 63.6 × 48.6 cm (25 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
    image: 41.5 × 35.5 cm (16 5/16 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.25.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hédiard 1906, no. 417 [proof]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paris art market, c. 1920/1935); Gérard-Henri Gilbert [1879 - 1943], Paris and New York; by descent to Michel Gérard Gilbert [1914 - 1973], New York and Paris; (by descent to Olivier Gilbert, Paris); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Hédiard, Germain and Leonce Benedite. Fantin-Latour; catalogue l'oeuvre lithographique du maître...nouvelle edition revue, corrigee et completee. Les maitres de la lithographie. Paris: Librarie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1906: no. 417 [trial proof]

Inscriptions

in stone, in image, at upper left: Fantin 79; at lower right, in graphite: A Monsieur West / h. Fantin

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