1882
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Madame Lerolle is a 1882 unspecified by Henri Fantin-Latour, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This portrait shows a woman in dark clothes sitting by a table with red roses. A vase holds the roses near her right hand. Soft light falls on her face and the flowers. Fantin-Latour often painted flowers in quiet settings. Here he adds one to a family portrait. The roses stand out against the dark background. If this style catches your eye, look up Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904).
The floral still life of roses enlivens the otherwise restrained palette used by the artist in this portrait. By the time he painted Madeleine Escudier Lerolle (1856–1937), wife of artist Henry Lerolle, the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour had established a steady clientele in Britain for his floral still lifes, arranged in modest vases and depicted against a neutral ground; he included such a still life in this portrait. Madeleine Lerolle and her daughter Yvonne are the subjects of another painting at the CMA by Albert Besnard in gallery 219.
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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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