A Studio at Les Batignolles

 

Title: A Studio at Les Batignolles

Artist:Henry • Latour (1836-1904)

Work Date: 1870

Materials: Oil on canvas

Size: h204xw273.5cm
Collection: Musee d’Orsay, Paris

 

Appreciation

 

Les Batignolles was the district where Manet and many of the future Impressionists lived. Fantin-Latour, a quiet observer of this period, has gathered around Manet, presented as the leader of the school, a number of young artists with innovative ideas: from left to right, we can recognise Otto Schölderer, a German painter who had come to France to get to know Courbet's followers, a sharp-faced Manet, sitting at his easel; Auguste Renoir, wearing a hat; Zacharie Astruc, a sculptor and journalist; Emile Zola, the spokesman of the new style of painting; Edmond Maître, a civil servant at the Town Hall; Frédéric Bazille, who was killed a few months later during the 1870 war, at the age of twenty-six; and lastly, Claude Monet.

 

About Artist

 

HenriFantin-Latour(1836-1904) grew up in Paris where he studied painting with his father. Although friendly with contemporary painters and writers, Fantin gradually withdrew from this active society to paint group portraits and still lifes in his own conservative style. His work strongly influenced the symbolist movement of the late 19th Century.

 

 

 

 

作品名稱:巴迪儂畫室

藝術家:亨利•拉圖爾

創作日期: 1870

材料:油彩,畫布

尺寸:h204xw273.5cm

收藏:奧賽美術館,巴黎

 

欣賞

 

亨利•拉圖爾也在1870年畫了一幅的“巴迪儂畫室”,畫中印象派小團體的著名畫家們,真實細膩。穿淺色褲子坐著畫畫的是馬奈,雕塑家阿斯特魯是他的模特。後面站著的從左到右分別是:德國畫家斯歇爾德雷,雷諾阿,作家左拉,公務員梅特爾,畫家弗雷德里克•巴齊耶和莫奈。

 

關於藝術家

 

亨利·拉圖爾(1836-1904)在巴黎長大,和他的父親學習繪畫。他雖然和很多印象派畫家是朋友,但是他的風格卻是較為保守的,他最擅長的的是花卉靜物畫,他的藝術家群像,記錄了歷史的珍貴時刻。他的作品強烈影響了19世紀後期的象徵主義運動。