Symphonie Fantastique: A Ball, from Hector Berlioz, sa vie et ses oeuvres

1888·Lithograph in black on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)·Image: 23.4 × 15.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.7 × 21.7 cm (12 1/8 × 8 9/16 in.)

<p>French composer Hector Berlioz’s <em>Symphonie Fantastique</em> is an epic composition that tells the story of an artist’s unrequited love for a beautiful woman, who was probably based on the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Here, Henri Fantin-Latour paid homage to the symphony’s second movement, in which the artist, at right, tries to gain the attention of his beloved as the guests of the ball mingle in the background.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1888
Medium: Lithograph in black on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions: Image: 23.4 × 15.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.7 × 21.7 cm (12 1/8 × 8 9/16 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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