Roses in a Bowl and Dish

1885

Fantin-Latour is best known as a still life painter, though he also painted portraits and allegories. In this delicate painting, the petals of the roses, with their precise outlines, rich colors, and velvety textures, stand out against the thinly-painted, off-white background. A great admirer of the artist’s work, Francine Clark asserted that Fantin-Latour was “as fine as Renoir at times.”

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	18 1/16 x 24 13/16 in. (45.9 x 63 cm) Frame: 26 7/8 x 34 3/8 in. (68.3 x 87.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.734
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Henri Fantin-Latour, Roses in a Bowl and Dish, 1885, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.734

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Paris: Palais des Beaux-Arts.. Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour.. May-June, 1906.. London: Alex Reid & Lefèvre.. Exposition Fantin-Latour.. 1934.. 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. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. 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.. Cummings, Hildegard. Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life. Exhibition catalogue. New Britain, CT: New Britain Museum of American Art, 2008. 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. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.

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Provenance

The artist, sold to Charles Ricada, Paris (until 1893, his sale, Drouot, Paris, 20 March 1893, no. 66, as Roses);¹ [Gustave Tempelaere, Paris]; Émile Chouanard, Paris (by 1906); [F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris]; Alfred Pacquement, Paris; [F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, sold to Clark, 21 April 1936, as Roses de toutes couleurs]; Robert Sterling Clark (1936–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. The invoice from Tempelaere to Clark states that “Monsieur Ricada . . . obtained this painting from Fantin himself.”