Core Record |
| Title |
Roses 'La France' |
| Alternative Title |
Roses in a Bowl |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Fantin-Latour, Henri (French painter and printmaker, 1836-1904) |
| Date Earliest |
probably 1895 |
| Date Latest |
probably 1895 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
Though Fantin did not specialise in painting any particular flower, it was as a painter of roses that he became best known during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Here, Fantin has placed a large bunch of roses in a rounded glass vase against a neutral pale-brown background. Many of the flowers are overblown, and despite their beauty there is and almost tangible sense of decay. |
| Current Accession Number |
2138 |
| Inscription |
front ur 'Fantin' |
| Subject |
still life (flowers) |
| Measurements |
40.3 x 46.4 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by William James Chrystal, 1939. |
| Provenance |
Gustave Tempelaere, Paris; Allard et Noel, Paris; F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris; Bonjean, Paris; Cremetti, London; Thomas McLean, London; from whom purchased by W. J. Chrystal, Dunbartonshire, 3 June 1912, as Rose in a Bowl £900. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Opening Exhibition Art Gallery and Museum, Greenock, 1958, cat. no. 10; 125th Loan Exhibition: Nineteenth Century French Pictures, Russell-Cotes art Gallery, Bournmouth, 1960, cat. no. 17; Fantin-Latour, Wildenstein, London, 1984, cat. no. 49; Masterpieces of French 19th Century Art from the Collections of Glasgow Museums, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (touring), 1994, cat. no. 38 |
| Publications |
Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, cat. no. 1592, p. 168; Opening Exhibition Art Gallery and Museum, Greenock, 1958, cat. no. 10; 125th Loan Exhibition: Nineteenth Century French Pictures, Russell-Cotes art Gallery, Bournmouth, 1960, cat. no. 17; Fantin-Latour, Wildenstein, London, 1984, cat. no. 49, pl. 45; Masterpieces of French 19th Century Art from the Collections of Glasgow Museums, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (touring), 1994, cat. no. 38, pp. 112-3, ill. p. 204 |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Vivien Hamilton |
