Fantin-Latour

[ fahn-tan-lah-toor ]

noun

1. (Ig·nace) Hen·ri (Jo·seph Thé·o·dore) [ee-, nyas, ah, n, -, ree, zhaw-, zef, tey-aw-, dawr], 1836–1904, French painter.

Fantin-Latour

/ fɑ̃tɛ̃latur /

noun

1. Fantin-Latour(Ignace) Henri18361904MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter ( Ignace ) Henri ( Joseph Théodore ) (ɑ̃ri). 1836–1904, French painter, noted for his still lifes and portrait groups

Example Sentences

They held out the tantalising prospect of freedom to her: she could have a visa, allowing her to leave Holland with her family, in exchange for a painting by the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour.

From BBC

He praises Fantin-Latour, too, for his “Chardinesque” style, referring to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, an artist whose style of placing “touches of color next to each other” Van Gogh would take as his own.

From Washington Post

There were doubles of Karen Kilimnik drawings, of Matisse drawings, of flower paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour.

From New York Times

Fantin-Latour assembled a coterie of them in a fantasized group portrait, which he titled “A Studio in the Batignolles”: Édouard Manet, the acknowledged leader, was depicted at the easel, painting the critic Zacharie Astruc, as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the novelist Émile Zola looked on.

From New York Times

To signal to the establishment that they were to be taken seriously, Fantin-Latour rendered them in muted gray or black frock coats, with somber beards and impassive expressions, but that was not the only provocation.

From New York Times