Musée d’Orsay · 1864
Homage to Delacroix
Henri Fantin-Latour
Fantin-Latour gathers ten painters and writers — including Manet, Baudelaire, and Whistler — standing solemnly around a portrait of the recently deceased painter Eugène Delacroix, honoring an artist they all admired rather than mourning him with sadness.
Why it matters
Fantin-Latour gathers ten painters and writers — including Manet, Baudelaire, and Whistler — standing solemnly around a portrait of the recently deceased painter Eugène Delacroix, honoring an artist they all admired rather than mourning him with sadness.
Look closer
Notice how still and formal everyone looks, almost like a photograph — critics at the time actually complained this group portrait felt too stiff and dark.
Fantin-Latour includes himself in the painting, palette in hand, standing right beside the portrait of Delacroix he's paying tribute to.
Value context
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