1879
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Manfred and Astarte (1st plate) is a 1879 ink by Henri Fantin-Latour, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two figures, a man and a woman, sitting closely together on a bench in a dimly lit room. The artist used a special printing process called lithography. It lets him draw on a flat stone with greasy ink, then press paper onto it. The soft lighting gives the scene a quiet, dreamy mood. Check out how Fantin-Latour handles light and shadow in this print.
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour (French pronunciation: ; 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
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