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The image shows a black and white illustration of a bouquet of large flowers in a glass vase. The flowers have round, full petals with some leaves visible. Two smaller fallen flowers are below the vase. The illustration is in shades of black, white, and grey for depth. The main bouquet is slightly off-center towards the upper portion of the image, with the vase's base near the bottom center. The fallen flowers and a stem are at the lower left.
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The image shows a black and white illustration of a bouquet of large flowers in a glass vase. The flowers have round, full petals with some leaves visible. Two smaller fallen flowers are below the vase. The illustration is in shades of black, white, and grey for depth. The main bouquet is slightly off-center towards the upper portion of the image, with the vase's base near the bottom center. The fallen flowers and a stem are at the lower left.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Bouquet of Roses

Henri Fantin-Latour

Date
1879
Medium
lithograph (proof) on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 63.6 × 48.6 cm (25 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.) image: 41.5 × 35.5 cm (16 5/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2021.25.1
Credit line
Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record
Provenance

(Paris art market, c. 1920/1935); Gérard-Henri Gilbert [1879 - 1943], Paris and New York; by descent to Michel Gérard Gilbert [1914 - 1973], New York and Paris; (by descent to Olivier Gilbert, Paris); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Inscription

in stone, in image, at upper left: Fantin 79; at lower right, in graphite: A Monsieur West / h. Fantin

NGA object ID 222269. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.