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No. 106 (January, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Proust, Antonin: The art of Fantin Latour
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0245
The Art of Fantin Latour
libres have been superseded by the official estab- by pupils, but by collaborators.' For my own
lishments, the result being that all emulation has part," adds Fantin, " I was at that time, and still
ceased, and every year, no matter how great the am, immensely impressed by Ingres, who even
merit of the appointed professors, the competi- now is perhaps not sufficiently honoured. I did
tions for the "Prix de Rome" reveal the same not stay long with Courbet, nor, by the way, did
disheartening banality, the same intolerable uni- he keep his 'studio of collaborators' any great
formity in the students' work. One guesses that length of time. I found a modest dwelling at
such and such a picture comes from the studio No. 13, Rue de Londres, after having stayed a
of M. Gustave Moreau, of M. Bonnat, of considerable time with my father in the Rue du
M. Gerome, or of M. Barrias; but what one Dragon, and having made my first journey to
sees quite plainly is that all these things are simply England in 1859. I have never been to Italy,
based on superficial formulae, and that the young always feeling more drawn towards the North."
men who gain the Prix de Rome have but one Let me remark en passant, that the last picture
desire, namely, to get back from the Eternal City exhibited by Fantin Latour's father was a Christ
with all speed, in order to bask once more under upon the Cross, which appeared in the Salon of
the sky of Paris. 1866. I cannot discover that his work, which was
Fantin Latour was advised in 1857 to study largely reminiscent of others, ever had any influence
under Courbet, and he tells the story of this on the son's genius.
little escapade with charming humour : " When we It is constantly said and written that what is
arrived," says he, "the painter, addressing us known as the "Romantic" movement of 1830
in his drawling but somewhat emphatic tones, was a protest against the rhetorical style prevailing
remarked, ' Mes enfants, I am surrounded here not at the commencement of the century; that the
O. Scholderer Renoir Zola E. Maitre Monet
Manet Z. Artrtic Bazille
' LIN ATELIER AUX BAT1GNOLLES " BY FANTIN LATOUR
(In the Musee du Luxembourg)
232
libres have been superseded by the official estab- by pupils, but by collaborators.' For my own
lishments, the result being that all emulation has part," adds Fantin, " I was at that time, and still
ceased, and every year, no matter how great the am, immensely impressed by Ingres, who even
merit of the appointed professors, the competi- now is perhaps not sufficiently honoured. I did
tions for the "Prix de Rome" reveal the same not stay long with Courbet, nor, by the way, did
disheartening banality, the same intolerable uni- he keep his 'studio of collaborators' any great
formity in the students' work. One guesses that length of time. I found a modest dwelling at
such and such a picture comes from the studio No. 13, Rue de Londres, after having stayed a
of M. Gustave Moreau, of M. Bonnat, of considerable time with my father in the Rue du
M. Gerome, or of M. Barrias; but what one Dragon, and having made my first journey to
sees quite plainly is that all these things are simply England in 1859. I have never been to Italy,
based on superficial formulae, and that the young always feeling more drawn towards the North."
men who gain the Prix de Rome have but one Let me remark en passant, that the last picture
desire, namely, to get back from the Eternal City exhibited by Fantin Latour's father was a Christ
with all speed, in order to bask once more under upon the Cross, which appeared in the Salon of
the sky of Paris. 1866. I cannot discover that his work, which was
Fantin Latour was advised in 1857 to study largely reminiscent of others, ever had any influence
under Courbet, and he tells the story of this on the son's genius.
little escapade with charming humour : " When we It is constantly said and written that what is
arrived," says he, "the painter, addressing us known as the "Romantic" movement of 1830
in his drawling but somewhat emphatic tones, was a protest against the rhetorical style prevailing
remarked, ' Mes enfants, I am surrounded here not at the commencement of the century; that the
O. Scholderer Renoir Zola E. Maitre Monet
Manet Z. Artrtic Bazille
' LIN ATELIER AUX BAT1GNOLLES " BY FANTIN LATOUR
(In the Musee du Luxembourg)
232