Pansies

1874

Henri Fantin-Latour

Associated Names
Henri Fantin-Latour

Artist, French, 1836 - 1904

This painting shows a group of potted pansies. There is a large basket filled with yellow pansies on the left, surrounded by at least four smaller terracotta pots on the right containing purple, white, blue, and orange pansies. The flowers have black markings near the centers of their petals and are surrounded by wide green leaves. The basket and pots are placed on a flat gray surface in front of a lighter gray wall.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 46.04 × 71.12 cm (18 1/8 × 28 in.)
    framed: 56.2 × 81.28 × 4.13 cm (22 1/8 × 32 × 1 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.18.10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) and The Birth of Impressionism, Musée Fabre, Montpelier; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016-2017, no. 98, repro.

Bibliography

1911

  • Fantin-Latour, Mme. Catalogue de l’œuvre complet, 1849-1904, de Fantin-Latour. Paris, 1911: 79, no. 713.

Inscriptions

lower left: Fantin.74.

Wikidata ID

Q20188780

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