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SelfPortrait
Bequeathed by Hans Velten 1931
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5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
21 June 2007 – 28 October 2007
2007-10-28
21 June 2007 – 28 October 2007
2007-10-28
2007-06-21
Fondation de l’Hermitage (Lausanne, Switzerland)
http://www.fondation-hermitage.ch
2007-06-21
Henri Fantin-Latour
Loan-out
16 April 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
16 April 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
2011-04-16
Bowes Museum (Barnard Castle, UK)
http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk
2011-04-16
Henri Fantin- Latour and the Impressionists: Still Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Loan-out
14 September 2016 – 18 June 2017
2017-06-18
14 September 2016 – 12 February 2017
2017-02-12
2016-09-14
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
18 March 2017 – 18 June 2017
2017-06-18
2017-03-18
Musée de Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
2016-09-14
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
Loan-out
Self-Portrait
support: 314 × 254 mm
frame: 465 × 406 × 76 mm
Bequeathed by Hans Velten 1931
<p><b>Henri Fantin-Latour</b><span> 1836-1904 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/fantin-latour-self-portrait-n04581" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04581</span></a> </span><b>Self-Portrait</b><span>
1860 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Fantin 1860.' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 10 (31.5 x 25.3)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Hans Velten 1931</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Matthew White Ridley, London (gift from the artist); Miss Dorothy Ridley, Caterham; sold by her at Christie's, London, 11 June 1923, lot 155; bt. F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris, £162.15s.; Hans Velten, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
Lent to the Tate Gallery by Hans Velten from 1927 until presented</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
John Rothenstein, </span><i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1947), pl.38; Edward Lucie-Smith, </span><i>Fantin-Latour</i><span>
(Oxford 1977), pl.40 </span>
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<p><span>Not included in the oeuvre catalogue by Mme Fantin-Latour. It is the self-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> sold at Christie's in 1923 and stated in the catalogue to have been presented by the artist to Matthew White Ridley (1837-88). The latter was an English painter who had met Fantin through Whistler and who in turn introduced him to Edwin Edwards [see Tate </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N01952" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N01952');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N01952</span></a><span>] Fantin painted his portrait in 1865. Two other works by Fantin in the same sale are also said to have been given by the artist to Ridley. </span>
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<p><span>Examination of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> appears to show that the artist modified the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> by cutting off a narrow strip at the bottom. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.214-15, reproduced p.214</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults artist, painter arts and entertainment body Fantin-Latour, Henri head / face man named individuals people portraits self-portraits work and occupations