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Henri Fantin-Latour

Portrait of Sonia, 1890

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 86

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 109.2 x 81 cm (43 x 31 7/8 in.)

framed: 132.7 x 104.4 cm (52 1/4 x 41 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.145

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

upper right: A ma chere [sic] niece Sonia / Fantin. 90

Provenance

The sitter, Sonia de Nikanoff [née Yanovski], niece of the artist. Duncan Phillips, Washington, D.C., by 1926.[1] (Paul Rosenberg et Cie., Paris); sold September 1936 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1]Published in Duncan Phillips, A Collection in the Making, 1926, plate 39.

[2]On Dale's acquisition of the painting, see the manuscript of his autobiography, Archives of American Art, microfilm reel 3969, copy NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Dale, Chester
Nikanoff, Sonia de
Phillips, Duncan
Rosenberg & Co., Paul P.

Exhibition History

1890: Exposition générale des beaux-arts, Brussels, 1890, no. 282, as Portrait of Mlle S.Y..

1890: Salon of 1890, Paris, no. 890, as Portrait of Mlle S.Y..

1891: 122nd exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy, London, 1891, no. 1110, as Sonia, daughter of General Yanovski.

1892: Exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolor, Picadilly, London, 1892, no. 198, as Sonia (daughter of General Yanovski).

1906: Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour, École nationale supérieur des beaux-arts, Paris, 1906, no. 63, as Portrait de Mademaoiselle S.Y..

1932: Fantin-Latour, Museum of French Art, New York, 1932, no. 19.

1936: Centenaire de Henri Fantin-Latour, Musée Bibliothèque de Grenoble, 1936, no. 40, as Portrait de Mlle S.J..

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

1980: Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, no. 11, repro.

2010: From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1942: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 48, repro.

1944: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 48, repro.

1953: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 40, repro.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 326, repro.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 69, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 49.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 41, repro.

1974: Chiego, William J. "Two Paintings by Fantin-Latour." Museum News. The Toledo Museum of Art 17, no. 2 (1974): 36, repro. 37

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 126, repro.

1979: Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 113, pl. 98.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 494, no. 731, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 151, repro.