Summer Flowers
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Summer Flowers, painted in September 1880 by the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour at the village of Buré in Normandy, is a luminous still life capturing a loose garden bouquet of dahlias, roses, and phlox gathered from his own country house. Fantin-Latour built his reputation on precisely this kind of intimate floral composition, prized in his own lifetime by an appreciative English clientele who saw in his flowers a rare combination of naturalism and quiet restraint.
Working just outside the main current of Impressionism yet deeply entwined with its circle — a close friend of Manet who exhibited alongside Whistler — Fantin-Latour approached the humble bouquet with the same seriousness other painters reserved for grand history subjects. The blooms are rendered with a soft, almost tactile realism, set against a neutral ochre ground that lets each petal and leaf hold its own light.
Now held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a sturdy 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to display and built to last.
| Artist | Henri Fantin-Latour |
| Year | 1880 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 20 x 24 3/8 in. (50.8 x 61.9 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Realism (Impressionist circle) |
