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Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour

Homage to Victor Hugo

c. 1885

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Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour

Homage to Victor Hugo

c. 1885

Physical Qualities Charcoal, conté crayon and white chalk with stumping, erasing and scraping, Mount: 444 × 307 mm. (17 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.) Sheet: 440 × 302 mm. (17 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds given in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object Number 1972.4
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1972; Stephen Spector, New York; Henri Darrasse Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 6, 1909, lot 85, 550 francs.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.

BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.

Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.

Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006,
Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 220-22, ill.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 63, ill.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL, (conté crayon), 'h. Fantin'; UC, (white chalk), 'VICTOR HUGO'.

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