Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) was a French painter. Inheriting 17th-century Dutch painting and Courbet's realism, he painted still lifes and more in a harmony of dark tones.
Henri Fantin-Latour was born in Grenoble and studied with his father, a portrait and pastel painter. He went to Paris, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and elsewhere, and for a time studied in Courbet's studio.
His work carries on the 17th-century Dutch painters and the stream of French realism that Courbet represented. It shows a realistic style based on harmonies of dark colors such as black and gray. In Japan, Still Life with Grapes and Peaches is held.
He was a realist in the line of the 17th-century Dutch painters and Courbet. Henri Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836 and died on August 25, 1904.
