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A depiction of a partially nude woman holding billowing red fabric behind her.

A woman who is nude from the waist up wears translucent layered draped white fabric around her lower body and legs. Her left arm bends up and behind her, grasping billowing red cloth, and her right arm is bent, pulling the red fabric over her shoulder. She looks up and to the left. Behind her is a dark landscape, in which a mountain peak is barely distinguishable from the dark cloudy sky. The colors are subtle and give the impression that this figure stands in stormy darkness.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.238
People
Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour, French (Grenoble, France 1836 - 1904 Buré (Orne), France)
Title
Dawn
Other Titles
Original Language Title: L'Aurore
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1883-1894
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230058

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
87.63 x 65.09 cm (34 1/2 x 25 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Fantin 94

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased in London through Birnbaum, 1937; Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.238
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Adolphe Jullien, Fantin Latour sa Vie et ses Amities, L. Laveur (Paris, France, 1909), repr. in b/w (n.p.), listed p. 209
  • Mme. Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1911), no. 1524, p. 162
  • Douglas Druick and Michael Hoog, Fantin-Latour, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada, 1983), cf. no. 150, p. 350, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 106; repr. as no. 387

Exhibition History

  • Annual Exhibition, 1894, Salon, Paris, Paris, 01/01/1894 - 12/31/1894
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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