1888
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Confiding in the Night is a 1888 by Henri Fantin-Latour, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a woman standing in a dark room, her back to us. She’s wearing a loose dress that flows down to her ankles. Her right arm is raised, hand near her head, while her left arm rests at her side. The background is mostly black, with faint shapes that look like furniture or curtains. The artist used bold contrasts between light and dark to make the figure stand out. The way the light hits her dress and hair gives it a soft, almost glowing look. Next, check out chiaroscuro to see how this lighting trick works.
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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