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The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right, in black crayon: "Fantin 1877"
Provenance
Robert Esnault-Peltier; by descent to Arnaud Meunie [letter from Francis Briest of Apr. 16, 1998 in curatorial file]; Francis Briest, Paris [Briest letter mentioned above]; sold, June 17, 1997, lot 64. Sold by Galerie Hopkins-Thomas to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
Exhibition history
Paris, Salon, 1884, cat. 2765; Paris, 1889, "Exposition Centennale de l'Art Français, 1789-1889," cat. 236. Bordeaux 1893, "Exposition de la Societé des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux,". Paris, 1900, "Exposition Centennale de l'Art Français," p.148, cat. 930, (ill.). Paris and New York, "Fantin-Latour," 1982-3, p. 224, exh. cat. by Dougas Druick and Michel Hoog. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Mme. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour (Paris, 1911. Reprint Amsterdam and New York, 1969), no. 1151 (incorrectly listed under works made in 1884).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Fantin-Latour / French, 1836-1904
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- Pastel, with opaque watercolor and scraping, over a lithograph in black ink, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 62.5 × 51.4 cm (24 5/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection, Harold Joachim and Helen Regenstein Endowments
- Accession no.
- 1998.360
More by Henri Fantin-Latour in museum collections
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