Detail of Asters and Fruit on a Table by Fantin-Latour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)

Title: Asters and Fruit on a Table

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22 3/8 x 21 5/8 in. (56.8 x 54.9 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2001, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Accession Number: 2001.202.3


Gallery Label:

Edwin and Ruth Edwards, the English patrons and dealers of Fantin's work, recommended that the artist always use simple vases and plain tabletops in his still lifes in order to show to advantage his great skill in rendering texture and color.


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