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Still Life with Pansies
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Still Life with Pansies

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

18 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (47 x 56.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1966

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Henri Fantin-Latour

1836–1904France

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