Still Life with Grapes and a Carnation, c. 1880

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 30.5 x 47 cm (12 x 18 1/2 in.)

framed: 40.32 x 56.52 x 5.72 cm (15 7/8 x 22 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2006.128.20

Artists / Makers

Henri Fantin-Latour (painter) French, 1836 - 1904

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right: Fantin

Provenance

(Arthur Tooth & Sons, London).[1] Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia, by 1966;[2] bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2006.

[1] According to a label removed from the back of the painting.

[2] The painting was lent to a 1966 exhibition of the Mellon collection at the NGA.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul
Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Arthur

Exhibition History

1966: Franch Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition 1941-1966, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no. 62, repro.

2013: Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.