Bowl of Roses on a Marble Table

1885

During his first visit to England in 1859, Fantin-Latour met Edwin and Elizabeth Edwards, who championed his work and encouraged the production of his flower paintings. The composition of this still life, which once belonged to the couple, is subtly dynamic—the angle of the marble-topped table and the position of the red rose on the left lead our eyes into the picture space.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	14 7/16 x 21 in. (36.7 x 53.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.920
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Henri Fantin-Latour, Bowl of Roses on a Marble Table, 1885, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.920

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Lucie-Smith, Edward. Fantin-Latour. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour.. Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour.. Paris: Henri Floury.. 1911.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

The artist, sold or consigned to Edwards; Elizabeth Ruth Edwards (Mrs. Edwin Edwards), Sunbury-on-Thames, sold to Bryant; T. H. Bryant, London (by 1907, probably until d. 1913);¹ H. Bryant, London, his daughter, by descent; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 15 Dec. 1941]; Robert Sterling Clark (1941–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Works from the estate of T. H. Bryant, probably this collector, appeared in a sale at Christie’s, London, on 21 July 1913, presumably indicating his approximate date of death.