Details
- Object type
painting
- Title
Chrysanthemums
- Artist/Maker
- Culture/School
French
- Date
1874
- Materials
oil on canvas
- Dimensions
framed: 820 mm x 913 mm x 110 mm; unframed: 556 mm x 648 mm x 10 mm
- Description
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Fantin was friendly with many of the Impressionists and, like them, frequented the Café Guerbois in the late 1860s. Despite their friendship, he refused to exhibit at their group show in 1874, as he believed that it was best to win official recognition at the Paris Salon. Indeed he played a major role in dissuading Manet from exhibiting with the Impressionists.
In his choice of subject-matter, and in his use of colour, Fantin’s work is quite different from that of his Impressionist friends. Unlike Monet, Renoir or Pissarro he never worked outside directly from nature and even when he, like them, painted flower still-lifes, his works are more realistic and much darker and cooler in tone.
During the final decades of the 19th century Henri Fantin-Latour became famous in France and England as a painter of portraits and still-lifes. Chyrsanthemums is unusual in Fantin’s work. Normally he depicts cut flowers carefully arranged in a porcelain or crystal case. This still life is, by comparison, is quite rustic - the plants shown are still growing in their earthenware pots.
- Credit Line/Donor
Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944
- Collection
Burrell Collection: Pictures [Oils, Pastels and Watercolours]
- ID Number
35.260
- Location
Burrell Collection