Still Life: Corner of a Table

1873

This canvas, exhibited at the Salon of 1873, relates to Fantin-Latour’s largest and most famous painting of the decade, The Corner of a Table, an immense composition that includes detailed portraits of several major young Parisian poets and writers. The table around which they are posed displays many of the still-life elements that are arranged in a natural, random fashion in this work.

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Artist

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)

Date

1873

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

96.4 × 125 cm (37 15/16 × 49 3/16 in.); Framed: 122 × 152.4 × 9.6 cm (48 × 60 × 3 3/4 in.)

Origin

France

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment