Roses and Lilies

Painting: Roses and Lilies

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 23.5x18"

Year: 1888

Fantin-Latour painted more than five hundred floral still lifes over the course of his career. Accounts of the artist's working methods in the mid-1880s reveal that he would paint a piece of cardboard and his canvas the same neutral color. Once the paint had dried, he placed the cardboard behind his floral arrangement in order to have a clear sense of how best to represent shadows and highlights on his canvas.

Henri Fantin-Latour Pansies

Painting: Pansies

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Year: 1903

Size: 9x11.125"

Fantin-Latour prided himself on his figurative works, but it was his floral still lifes that were most popular with contemporary collectors, especially British ones. In this informal study of pansies, the artist has used the end of his paint brush to carve out details in the thick paint of the petals.Henri Fantin-Latour Pansies