Fantin-Latour, Henry. (1836 - 1904)
Frontispiece: Verité - Signed Lithograph
Original 1885 lithograph, published by Lemercier & Cie, Paris (Hédiard 56 ii/ii). Signed and dedicated to the German painter, Otto Scholderer (1834 - 1902): "a O. Scholderer / H. Fantin" in pencil lower right. Lithograph on chine collé, image size 18 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (46.3 x 32.5 cm), framed. In fine condition, margins foxed (almost exclusively to the support), not examined out of frame.Fantin-Latour depicted Scholderer in his picture Studio aux Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay).
"Through such friends as Otto Scholderer, a painter and violinist from Frankfurt, Edmore Maitre (d. 1898), a pianist and dilettante, Adolphe Jullien (1840 - 1932), his biographer, and the judge Antoine Lascoux, Fantin-Latour discovered the contemporary German music of Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner. He was imbued with the spirit of Romanticism...Music provided a reservoir of ideas in which Fantin-Latour's escapism could find imaginative expression; he discovere the dreaming idealistic side of life that he did not find in contemporary society." (Jane Turner, "Grove Dictionary of Art: Late 19th Century, " p. 170) (6347)
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