A Basket of Roses, 1890 by Henri Fantin-Latour
Canvas Print - 12739-LHF
Location: National Gallery, London, UKOriginal Size: 48.9 x 60.3 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $65.88 USD
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Painting Information
Fantin-Latour’s admiration for 17th-century Dutch flower painters is palpable here, though he approaches the tradition on his own terms. Unlike those artists who worked from stored sketches, he insisted on painting flowers only when they were freshly in season. Records suggest he bought his blooms at the Place St Sulpice market, timing his efforts to capture each rose before it withered. This insistence on immediacy resonates with the painting’s late 19th-century milieu - a period in which consumers delighted in the spectacle of delicate fineries, including floral still lifes destined for bourgeois interiors.
Confronted by so many roses, the eye follows their gentle arc as they spill out of a wicker basket and onto the table. Each bloom tips in a unique direction, giving the impression of spontaneity. Yet the arrangement is anything but haphazard. The scattered petals and tumbling stems achieve a quiet harmony, each flower turned to reveal its own character and form. One notices the heavier presence of darker flowers anchoring the composition at top and bottom, ensuring the overall sense of depth remains intact.
Color is used with clear deliberation. The lighter blooms - pure white, pale apricot, and the most delicate pink - catch a bright, direct light that illuminates their petals as though they are half-transparent. These fragile tones seem poised between presence and disappearance, their weightless quality held in tension by the deeper reds. In the background, a subdued, mottled wall sets them apart from any real-world context, lending the piece a dreamlike stillness. Such isolation would have suited Victorian taste: a small, refined pause within an otherwise cluttered drawing room.
Technically, Fantin-Latour’s brushwork balances precision with gentle gradations of color and tone. Each glossy leaf is defined, yet the subtle layering of paint avoids stiffness. A commercially prepared toile absorbante (absorbent canvas) hastened drying, allowing the artist to work rapidly before the flowers drooped. The result is an almost photographic realism that momentarily suspends the natural decay of its subject. And yet, in this very suspension, one senses the fleeting nature of the bouquet. The viewer is left pondering not only the transience of each rose, but also the painter’s own skill at halting time on the brink of wilting beauty.
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