In Memory of Robert Schumann
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 30.5 × 18.9 cm (12 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 50.1 × 37.4 cm (19 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44006
Art Historical Context
Henri Fantin-Latour's *In Memory of Robert Schumann* (1873) is a poignant lithographic tribute to the revered German Romantic composer, created over a decade after Schumann's death in 1856. Fantin-Latour, a French artist known for his elegant portraits of musicians and intellectuals, captured Schumann's introspective spirit in this black-ink print on delicate off-white China paper. The image measures 30.5 × 18.9 cm, with the full sheet at 50.1 × 37.4 cm, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department. Lithography, Fantin-Latour's favored medium here, allowed for subtl...
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836, in Grenoble, France, to portrait painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, who gave him his earliest drawing lessons. The family relocated to Paris in 1841, where in 1850, at age 14, he enrolled in the École de Dessin, studying under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose innovative memory-based method of drawing from observation profoundly ...