Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
This is one of four still lifes commissioned from the artist by Michael Spartali, a Greek businessman and diplomat who lived in London. Fantin worked on these canvases from March through September 1866, exhibiting one of them at the Paris Salon the same year (now National Gallery of Art, Washington). Among Fantin’s first major achievements as a still life painter, the present work reflects his aspiration to create serious and complex compositions in a realist style inspired by Chardin and Courbet.
Artwork Details
- Title: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
- Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, Grenoble 1836–1904 Buré)
- Date: 1866
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, by exchange, 1980
- Object Number: 1980.3
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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