Roses
About this artwork
These are Gloire de Dijon roses, distinctive for their large blooms, pinkish-apricot colour and fragrant scent. Fantin-Latour brought them indoors to paint in the studio, studying the relationship of different tones. Here he sets the pale pink roses against a neutral, dark background, a device often used by his contemporary Edouard Manet. Fantin-Latour’s still lifes were extremely popular with French and British collectors in the later nineteenth century.
Updated January 2022
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artist:Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836 - 1904) French
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title:Roses
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date created:About 1890/95
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:38.00 x 40.00 cm; Framed: 66.00 x 61.00 x 10.20 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequest of Dr John Kirkhope 1920
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accession number:NG 1455
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour
Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour
Born in Grenoble in 1836, Fantin briefly attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He shared some of the Impressionists’ ideals, but specialised in still lifes and quasi-Symbolist works rather than contemporary subjects. He exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1861 to 1899, mainly submitting still lifes...