Mademoiselle de Fitz-James
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 51.1 x 42.8 cm (20 1/8 x 16 7/8 in.) framed: 75.9 x 68 cm (29 7/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.24
Art Historical Context
Henri Fantin-Latour's *Mademoiselle de Fitz-J* (1867) is a captivating oil-on-canvas portrait that exemplifies the artist's mastery of 19th-century French Realism. Measuring 51.1 x 42.8 cm, this intimate work captures the poised elegance of its young aristocratic subject, likely a member of the noble Fitz-James family, the opulent Second Empire era in Paris. Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), a close associate of Édouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler, favored precise, luminous portraits that blended academic rigor with subtle psychological depth, distancing himself from the Impressionist trends of ...
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 ...