Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England, where his still-lifes sold so well that they were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime" [REF].
In 1875, 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 Lower Normandy, where he died on 25 August 1904.