Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Fantin-Latour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

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

Title: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

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

Accession Number: 1980.3


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This is one of four still lifes commissioned from the artist in 1866 by Michael Spartali, a wealthy Greek businessman and diplomat who lived in London. Fantin-Latour worked on the suite of pictures from March through September, inspired to produce variations on an ambitious composition that he debuted at the Salon of 1866 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).

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