Henri FANTIN LATOUR - A Corner of the Table, 1873 - Signed engraving
A Table Corner
Etching
Copper setting by Le Rat
Signed in the plate
On laid 20.5 x 30 cm (c. 8 x 12 in)
Published by the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1873
Printed in the workshops of A. Salmon in Paris
ABOUT: Un coin de table is a group portrait as well as a testimony to the literary history of the 19th century, the poetic movement of Parnassus in particular. At the end of a table, several men are gathered after a meal. Three are standing, from left to right: Elzéar Bonnier, Emile Blémont, Jean Aicard. Five are seated, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, Léon Valade, Ernest d'Hervilly, Camille Pelletan. All are dressed in black except one, Camille Pelletan, who is not a poet like the others, but a politician. Emile Blémont, distinguished by its central position, acquired the painting which he offered to the Louvre in 1910. At least two figures are missing: Charles Baudelaire, who died in 1867, and to whom the painting was originally intended to pay homage, and Albert Mérat who did not wish to be represented. in the company of the sulphurous Verlaine and Rimbaud and was, it is said, replaced by a bouquet of flowers.
INFORMATION: A copy of this prestigious series of engravings, published by the Galerie Durand Ruel, a major player in the promotion of the Impressionists, is in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay Library, the Librairie du Congrès or the BNF.
This is the original edition, not a modern reissue.
Excellent condition
[Ref. Durand Ruel, issue 4 - 1873]
Dimensions :
- Height : 20 cm
- Width : 30 cm
Edouard Manet :
Born in Paris in 1832, Edouard Manet was a french painter and engraver.
He was the leader of the impressionist artists. Today he is considered as the father of modern painting.
He entered the workshop of the academic painter Thomas Couture in 1850. In 1863, he joined the Salon des Refusés, where he enjoyed a great success. In 1866, he joined a group of independent artists (Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne) and quickly became the leader. In 1867, he was excluded from the Exposition universelle, and exhibited 50 paintings in his own pavilion. He recieved a medal at The 1881 Salon.
The artist died in Paris in 1883.
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