The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)

Prints and Drawings

1877

Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-1904

Fantin-Latour underwent a striking evolution over the course of his career, starting out as a member of the Realist avant-garde before creating anti-Realist, fantastic compositions in the 1870s. This masterful pastel honoring the late French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz is part of the proto-Symbolist “imaginative projects” developed by Fantin-Latour around 1875.

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Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Title: The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1877
Medium: Pastel, with opaque watercolor and scraping, over a lithograph in black ink on wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right, in black crayon: "Fantin 1877"
Dimensions: 62.5 × 51.4 cm (24 5/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection, Harold Joachim and Helen Regenstein Endowments
Reference Number: 1998.360
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Mme. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour (Paris, 1911. Reprint Amsterdam and New York, 1969), no. 1151 (incorrectly listed under works made in 1884).

Paris, Salon, 1884, cat. 2765;
Paris, 1889, “Exposition Centennale de l’Art Français, 1789-1889,” cat. 236.
Bordeaux 1893, “Exposition de la Societé des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux,”.
Paris, 1900, “Exposition Centennale de l’Art Français,” p.148, cat. 930, (ill.).
Paris and New York, “Fantin-Latour,” 1982-3, p. 224, exh. cat. by Dougas Druick and Michel Hoog.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions,” August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.

Robert Esnault-Peltier; by descent to Arnaud Meunie [letter from Francis Briest of April 16, 1998 in curatorial file]; Francis Briest, Paris [Briest letter mentioned above]; sold, June 17, 1997, lot 64. Sold by Galerie Hopkins-Thomas to the Art Institute, 1998.

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