Henri Fantin-Latour, (French, 1836-1904)
Stabat Mater, c. 1896
Oil on canvas
18 ¾ x 26 ½ in. (47.6 x 67.3 cm.)
Private collection
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, "Stabat Mater dolorosa", which means "the sorrowful mother was standing".
The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers. More on Stabat Mater
Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August
1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his
flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. He
was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère. As a
youth, he received drawing lessons from his father, who was an artist. In 1850
he entered the Ecole de Dessin. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in
Paris from 1854, he devoted much time to copying the works of the old masters
in the Musée du Louvre. Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young
artists who would later be associated with Impressionism, including Whistler
and Manet, Fantin's own work remained conservative in style.
Whistler
brought attention to Fantin in England, where his still-lifes sold so well that
they were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime". In
addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative
lithographs inspired by the music of some of the great classical composers.
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. More on Henri
Fantin-Latour
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