Henri Fantin-Latour
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Henri Fantin-Latour (January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer.
Born Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, France, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers.[citation needed] His work strongly influenced the symbolist movement of the late 19th Century.[citation needed]
Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England.
In addition to his paintings, Fantin-Latour created ingenious lithographs demonstrating the music of some of the great classical composers.
In 1876, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Basse-Normandie, where he died of lyme disease.
He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France.
Today, one of his paintings can sell for as much as US$2.5 million.
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