Detail of Still Life with Pansies by Fantin-Latour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

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

Title: Still Life with Pansies

Date: 1874

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (47 x 56.5 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1966

Accession Number: 66.194


Gallery Label:

In a catalogue of her husband's work, Madame Fantin-Latour included this still life in her list of thirty-one compositions of flowers and fruit painted in 1874. The branch of apples suggests that the present picture was painted in the fall; the pansies are spring flowers that were probably cultivated in a hothouse.

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