Henri Fantin-Latour
1836-1904
Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
1872
sheet: 5 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (138 x 115 mm); full sheet: 7 x 5 5/8 inches (177 x 143 mm)
Watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on light brown paperboard.
2017.78
Thaw Collection.
Notes
Fantin-Latour was a French painter and printmaker who became famous for his flower still lifes and his portraits of Parisian avant-garde artists and writers. This is a study of the poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), who was only eighteen years old at the time. It shows the boy-writer as fellow poet Paul Verlaine described him: the enfant sublime with the face of an exiled angel. Fantin-Latour used this study for his famous painting Un coin de table (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which depicts a group of poets-- also including Verlaine--and was exhibited at the Salon of 1872. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen and black ink at upper left, "Fantin. 72", and below framed area and partially effaced by wash at lower right, "F. Latour/F. Latour".
Associated names
Barthou, Louis, 1862-1934, former owner.
Barthou, Léon, former owner.
Duhamel, Georges, 1884-1966, former owner.
Viardot, former owner.
Clairet, Alain, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Barthou, Léon, former owner.
Duhamel, Georges, 1884-1966, former owner.
Viardot, former owner.
Clairet, Alain, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection", 2017. Exh. cat., no. 117, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 46.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 46.
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