Shop art print and framed art Coin de table by Henri Fantin-Latour

Un coin de table is an oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, exhibited at the Salon of 1872. The painting is the third in a series of four "group portraits": the first two, Hommage à Delacroix (1864) and Un atelier aux Batignolles (1870), are of painters he admired; the fourth, Autour du piano (1885), is of musicians;". Fantin-Latour's initial plan was to pay Baudelaire a tribute similar to the one he had paid Delacroix in a famous painting in 1864. He planned to bring together a number of leading figures from the literary world around a portrait of the poet of Les Fleurs du Mal, whose birth was being commemorated on the fiftieth anniversary of his birth (1821-1867). It was his friend Edmond Maître who helped Fantin make contact with several poets who frequented the offices of the Seine Prefecture, including Albert Mérat, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. Baudelaire's publisher, Poulet-Malassis, floated the idea of having Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville and even Victor Hugo pose, but they all refused. There are two sketches of this painting, which Fantin-Latour had entitled : Le Repas [sic?]. This group portrait therefore represents the poets who attended the Vilains Bonshommes dinners that Edmond Maître had introduced to Fantin. Noticeably absent is Albert Mérat, who refused to pose with Arthur Rimbaud after the incident that occurred at the dinner on 2 March 1872: Rimbaud had interrupted a reading by Jean Aicard and forced the poets to remove him by force. The group [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the realism style.

 

« Coin de table » is kept at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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