Liggende naakte vrouw
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
4; 2.2; 22.9; 29.4
About this artwork
signature and date: ‘Fantin 74’
Art Historical Context
Henri Fantin-Latour's *Liggende naakte vrouw* (Reclining Nude Woman), painted in 1874, is a delicate oil on canvas that captures the artist's mastery of intimate figure studies. Signed and dated "Fantin 74," this small work—measuring just 22.9 x 29.4 cm—invites close contemplation, its modest scale suggesting it may have been a personal sketch or preparatory piece rather than a grand salon entry. Fantin-Latour, a French Realist painter active in mid-19th-century Paris, bridged academic traditions with emerging modernist influences. Friends with Impressionists like Manet and Degas, he favored ...
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 ...