Henri FANTIN LATOUR - A Corner of the Table, 1873 - Signed engraving

Henri FANTIN LATOUR (1836-1904)
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, appears in the collections of the
Library of the Musée d'Orsay, 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