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Fantin Latour, Henri When we recall that Pissarro was born in 1830, Manet in 1832, Degas in 1834 and Cézanne and Sisley in 1839, it is clear that Henri Fantin-Latour, born in 1836 in Grenoble, belongs entirely to this generation. He is also one of them in that he took part in their meetings in the Café Guerbois, even though he was more a listener than an active participant, and he was one of them in the Salon des Refusés of 1863; he admired Manet, whom in 1867 he painted in a way that cannot be matched as a self-assured elegant bourgeois, and around whom Renoir, Monet and Bazille with other admirers gathered in his painting "The Studio in Batignolles" of 1870. Yet he never exhibited with his impressionist friends. Receptive and with a gift for friendship, which he maintained even with such an extravagant painter friend as Whistler, he preferred to retreat into his almost cramped private world. This introverted style of living accounts for the numerous self-portraits, as was later the case with van Gogh. Of the twenty-three self-portraits listed by Madame Fantin-Latour in the Catalogue of the Works, twenty-two are painted in the 50s and 60s. Our picture, done in 1861, shows the 25-year-old artist, with palette in his right hand, his brush in the left, as in the mirror, his face brightly illuminated from the left against the dark background. It is the painter who had been schooled ma inly by doing countless copies of the old masters of the Louvre, especially the Italians, his proud youthful pathos revealing his preference for music. The picture was exhibited in 1861 with two others by him in the Salon, after he had been rejected by the jury in 1859 when first trying to exhibit in the Salon...Buehrle Collection
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