Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-1904
The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)
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Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-19041877
The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)
Henri Fantin-Latour French, 1836-1904 →pasteldrawings (visual works)
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Day Blake Collection, Harold Joachim and Helen Regenstein Endowments
Fantin-Latour underwent a striking evolution over the course of his career, starting out as a member of the Realist avant-garde before creating anti-Realist, fantastic compositions in the 1870s. This masterful pastel honoring the late French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz is part of the proto-Symbolist “imaginative projects” developed by Fantin-Latour around 1875.
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