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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour – Still Life with Carafe, Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit; Henri Fantin-Latour Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Somewhat larger than most of Fantin-Latour’s still lifes, this is a prime example of his beautiful approach. Most striking here, I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour fruit, flowers, cup and book
Still Life, Henri Fantin-Latour Another Fantin-Latour-de-force (sorry, couldn’t resist) still life in which the 19th century French master serves up more of his yummy, painterly style. Link above is to Wikipedia, from which you can access a reasonably high-resolution file. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C.
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour asters and fruit
Asters and Fruit on a Table, Henri Fantin-Latour Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow. I find it fascinating that Fantin-Latour has de-emphasized the glass vase — likely a star part of the composition in the hands of many other artists — and emphasized instead the textural surface of both the flowers…
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Eye Candy for Today: early Fantin-Latour still life
Still Life with Roses and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Zoom or download arrow. Though I also admire Fantin-Latour’s mature work, I just love the painterly quality of this early still life — a wonderful study in brushwork and edges. To my thinking, there is a direct…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour still life
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on Fullscreen and use zoom or download arrow.
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Emilie Preyer
Liker her father, Johann Wilhelm Preyer, Emilie Preyer was a noted 19th century German still life artist who devoted much of her career to painting carefully composed arrangements of fruits. While Preyer senior was an excellent painter, I think Emilie outdid him with her more visceral portrayal of texture and sensitivity to the subtle effects…