Lot 616
  • 616

Henri Fantin-Latour

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Fantin-Latour
  • Ondine or La Mer or Nymphe
  • signed Fantin (lower right)
  • oil on card laid down on canvas
  • 11 1/4 by 17 1/2 in.; 28.7 by 44.5 cm.

Provenance

Collection of Eugène Lyon;
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 7, 1903, lot 12;
Collection of Gustave Tempelaere, Paris;
Collection of J. Hereau, Paris;
Collection of Alexis Rouart, Paris;
Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 8, 1911, lot 77;
Collection of F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris;
E.J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam;
Private Collection, Canada;
Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1990, lot 24;
Private Collection, Japan.

Exhibited

New York, Shepherd Gallery, 1979, no. 44;
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, September-November 1998, no. 23.

Literature

Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Henri Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1936, p. 177, no. 1658.

Condition

The surface of the work is in overall good condition. There is craquelure throughout the work. Under UV; heavy masking varnish.
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