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Portrait of a Woman

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Portrait of a Woman

Henri Fantin-Latour

1885

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Portraits Women

Dimensions

39 1/2 x 32 in. (100.3 x 81.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1910

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Henri Fantin-Latour

1836–1904 • France

His work is characterized by a depiction of modern life and contemporary scenes. He was interested in light effects, although in a style different from Manet and the Impressionists. From 1864 he began exhibiting group portraits depicting avant-garde painters and writers. Comment on works: still life, Portraits

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