Still Life with Pansies
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (47 x 56.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.194
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Art Historical Context
Henri Fantin-Latour's *Still Life with Pansies* (1874) is a exquisite example of 19th-century French still life painting, rendered in oil on canvas measuring 18½ x 22¼ inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Paintings department, this work captures the quiet elegance of everyday beauty—vibrant pansies, ripe apples, and delicate flowers arranged with masterful precision. Acquired through The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund in 1966, it invites visitors to savor the tactile richness of its subjects. Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), a prominent Realist painter, elevate...
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 ...