Henri Fantin

Henri Fantin-Latour
Autoportrait assis, la palette à la main, 1861
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
Fantin-Latour no. 167
Provenance
Gustave Tempelaere, Paris (1) ▪ Dr. Georges Viau, Paris (by 1900) (2) ▪ Alfred Ströhlin, Paris (3) ▪
Ferdinand & Julien Tempelaere, Paris (4) ▪ Duval-Fleury, Paris (5) ▪ Wilhelm Hansen, Ordrupgaard,
Copenhague (1918–1923) (6) ▪ Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe (1923) (7) ▪ Confiscated from Kojiro
Matsukata by the French government and offered for sale (8) ▪ Max Kaganovitch, Paris (1947) (9) ▪
Germain Seligman, New York (by 1954/55) (10) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (31 January 1955 until [d.] 28
November 1956) (11) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection,
Zurich, no. 44 (1960).
(1) Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen, Wilhelm Hansens oprindelige franske samling på Ordrupgaard; Wilhelm
Hansen's Original French Collection at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen 1993, no. 77.
(2) Exposition centennale de l'art français de 1800 à 1889, Exposition Universelle de 1900 (Grand Palais), Paris
1900, no. 283.
(3) Wirenfeldt, as above, n. (1).
(4) Wirenfeldt, as above, n. (1).
(5) Wirenfeldt, as above, n. (1).
(6) Wirenfeldt, as above, n. (1).
(7) Acquired from the above for FF 40.000, Wirenfeldt, as above, n. (1).
(8) Biens ennemis sous séquestre, Collection privée, Importants tableaux modernes […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot,
Paris (21 November 1947), no. 5.
(9) Wirenfeldt, as above, n. (1).
(10)AStEGB, Invoice from Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 6 January 1955;
Correspondence between Germain Seligman, New York, and Welti-Furrer, Zurich, regarding the shipment of
the painting to Switzerland, 30 November 1954–10 December 1954; Letter from Germain Seligman, New
York, to Emil Bührle, 6 January 1955, accompanying the invoice for the painting.
(11)Acquired from the above for $ 6.000, AStEGB, Letter from Germain Seligman, New York, to Emil Bührle, 31
January 1955, acknowledging receipt of the above amount.
Exhibitions
Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, lithograhpie et architecture des artistes vivants… [Salon de
1861], Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris 1861, no. 1059. ▪ Exposition centennale de l'art français de
1800 à 1889, Exposition Universelle de 1900 (Grand Palais), Paris 1900, no. 283. ▪ Exposition de
l'œuvre de Fantin-Latour, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1906, no. 10. ▪ Fransk Malerkunst fra
det 19nde Aarhundrede, Dansk Kunstmuseums Forening (Statens Museum for Kunst), Copenhagen
1914, no. 86. ▪ Inaugural Exposition of French Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San
Francisco 1924–25, no. 22. ▪ Cent Portraits d'hommes du XIVe siècle à nos jours, Galerie Charpentier,
Paris 1952, no. 27. ▪ Fantin-Latour, De la réalité au rêve, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2007,
no. 11. ▪ Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum &
Fondation Corboud, Cologne 2016–17, no. 38.
References
Revue Universelle, Paris 1904, no. 121. ▪ Adolphe Jullien, Fantin-Latour, Sa vie et ses amitiés, Paris
1909, pp. 21–22, 196. ▪ Victoria Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849–1904) de
Fantin-Latour, Paris 1911, no. 167 (2Amsterdam & New York 1969; 3Paris 2000). ▪ Frank Gibson, The
Art of Henri Fantin-Latour, His Life and Work, London 1924, p. 41. ▪ Gustave Kahn, Fantin-Latour,
Paris 1926, fig. 3. ▪ Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen, Wilhelm Hansens oprindelige franske samling på
Ordrupgaard; Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Collection at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen 1993, no. 77
(ill.). ▪ Fantin-Latour, Manet, Baudelaire, L'Hommage à Delacroix, (exh. cat.) Musée national Eugène-
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Delacroix, Paris 2011–12, fig. 1. ▪ Bridget Alsdorf, Fellow Men, Fantin-Latour and The Problem of the
Group in Ninenteenth-Century French Painting, Princeton & Oxford 2013, p. 31, fig. 1.12.
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 44; 1973/86, no. 37; 1994/95, p. 38 (ill.);
2004/05: no. 61. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 317; Washington D. C. etc.
1990–91, no. 34; Zurich 2010, no. 44.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Status as per January 2017
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