Stilleven met fruit
ca. 1880 - ca. 1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
42.8; 2.5; 10.8; 28.3
About this artwork
Stilleven met fruit. Witte schotel met druiven en een peer, rechts een mandje met appels en andere vruchten.
Art Historical Context
Henri Fantin-Latour’s *Stilleven met fruit* (ca. 1880–1890) exemplifies the quiet elegance of nineteenth-century French still-life painting. Though best known today for his flower pieces and group portraits of artistic friends, the artist regularly turned to modest arrangements of fruit, finding in them an opportunity to explore subtle tonal harmonies and the play of light on varied surfaces. Painted in oil on a small canvas measuring just 28 by 43 centimetres, the work invites close, intimate viewing. The composition is simple yet carefully balanced: a white porcelain dish holding translucen...
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836, in Grenoble, France, to portrait painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, who gave him his earliest drawing lessons. The family relocated to Paris in 1841, where in 1850, at age 14, he enrolled in the École de Dessin, studying under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose innovative memory-based method of drawing from observation profoundly ...