Still Life with Pansies
1874 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 18 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (47 x 56.5 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1966
According to a list of Fantins paintings compiled by his wife, this still life is one of thirty-one compositions of flowers and fruit that the artist produced in 1874. The branch of apples suggests that the present picture was painted in the fall; the pansies are spring flowers that were probably cultivated in a hothouse. Fantin reprised elements seen here in at least two other paintings: Potted Pansies of 1883 (2013.636) and Pansies of 1903 (1996.517).
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About this artwork
Still Life with Pansies (1874) by Henri Fantin-Latour, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
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