The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)

1877·Pastel, with opaque watercolor and scraping, over a lithograph in black ink, on wove paper·62.5 × 51.4 cm (24 5/8 × 20 1/4 in.)

<p>Fantin-Latour underwent a striking evolution over the course of his career, starting out as a member of the Realist avant-garde before creating anti-Realist, fantastic compositions in the 1870s. This masterful pastel honoring the late French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz is part of the proto-Symbolist “imaginative projects” developed by Fantin-Latour around 1875.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1877
Medium: Pastel, with opaque watercolor and scraping, over a lithograph in black ink, on wove paper
Dimensions: 62.5 × 51.4 cm (24 5/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour

Artist

Henri Fantin-Latour

Painting

Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

Grenoble, France

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