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Henri Fantin-Latour
Bouquet of Zinnias, 1902
Although he became friends with the Impressionists, Fantin-Latour always considered himself a Realist and Gustave Courbet his principal influence. This painting -- with its balanced, pyramidal composition -- demonstrates his exactly observation of color, light, and texture. A contemporary observer once testified that Fantin-Latour would study each flower as carefully as one would study a human face. |