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Artist:
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Henri Fantin-Latour
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Title:
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Portrait of the Artist Alphonse Legros
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Date:
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1856
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Medium:
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oil on linen
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Dimensions:
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10 1/2 x 9 in. (26.67 x 22.86 cm) (canvas)
10 x 8 13/16 in. (25.4 x 22.38 cm) (sight)
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Steven Zellmer and Gift of the Paintings Council
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Location:
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Gallery 354
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Painted entirely en plein air during an outing in the French countryside, Fantin-Latour depicts his fellow artist and friend Alphonse Legros in a lively and direct manner. The two became close while attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Two years after Fantin-Latour painted this portrait, he and Legros joined with English artist James Abbot McNeil Whistler to form the famous âGroup of Threeâ motivated by their aversion to the contemporary academic system of artistic training. Fantin-Latour painted Legros on several occasions and this is the earliest known example.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Fantin-Latour, Henri
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1836 - 1904
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature; Date LR (scratched into paint surface): [Fantin, 56]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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sketchy portrait of a man with bushy brown hair, small beard and mustache, wearing a dark suit with a white shirt; abstracted foliage in background with bit of sky at UL corner. Painted entirely en plein air.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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2000.48
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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