Monday Morning Museum: Henri Fantin-Latour

Self Portrait, 1867 by Henri Fantin-Latour

Henri Fantin-Latour (Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour) – Thursday 14 January 1836 Grenoble, France to Thursday 25 August 1904 Buré, France

French Realist Painter

Summer Flowers, 1880

"By the time Fantin painted this work, he had established a steady demand in Britain for his exquisite paintings of informal flower arrangements, set in modest vases and seen against a neutral ground. The flowers in this picture were picked from his garden at Buré in Normandy." – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Robert Henri
Next Monday’s Artist – Georges de la Tour

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Monday Morning Museum: Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage – 1 November 1848 Darnvillers, Meuse, France to 10 December 1884 Paris, France

French Realist Painter

Joan of Arc, 1879

“With the loss of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), the national heroine from Lorraine, Joan of Arc, acquired new symbolic importance among the French. A succession of sculpted and painted images of the medieval teenaged martyr appeared in the Salons of the 1870s and 1880s. At the 1880 Salon, Bastien-Lepage, himself a native of Lorraine, exhibited this painting, which represents the moment of Joan of Arc's divine revelation in her parents' garden. His depiction of the saints whose voices she heard elicited a mixed reaction from Salon critics, many of whom found the presence of the saints at odds with the naturalism of the artist's style.” – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Alfred Stieglitz
Next Monday’s Artist – Adolphe-William Bouguereau

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Monday Morning Museum: Gustave Courbet

Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), circa 1845-1846 by Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet – Thursday 10 June 1819 Ornans, Doubs, France to Monday 31 December 1877 La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
French Realist Painter

The Calm Sea, 1869

“Courbet's first encounter with the Mediterranean, in 1854, resulted in a group of seascapes. He returned to the genre during a prolific three-month period in Trouville in 1865. There, in the company of James McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet, he executed, by his own count, thirty-eight canvases, including twenty-five seascapes. Returning to Étretat along the coast of Normandy in August 1869, he painted this view of the Channel coast at low tide. The composition, in which an immense sky reduces the landscape to narrow bands of sea and shore, is one that Courbet favored for his seascapes.” – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist - Édouard-Denis Baldus
Next Monday’s Artist – James Peale
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Monday Morning Museum: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Sunday 17 July 1796 Paris, France to Monday 22 February 1875 Paris, France

French Realist Painter


Though it may actually be a nymphaeum, this painting of the ruin by Corot – Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome, March 1826 – is not diminished by giving the subject of the work its commonly know name.



Last Monday’s Artist – Jacob van Strij
Next Monday’s Artist – George Wesley Bellows


Images:
Left: Rocks in Amalfi, circa 1826-1827 from the website artrenewal.org
Center: Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath), 1836 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: A Windmill in Montmartre, circa 1845 from the website upload.wikimedia.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent