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Madame Lerolle
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
1882
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 132.4 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (52 1/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 108.2 x 78.9 cm (42 5/8 x 31 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The floral still life of roses enlivens the otherwise restrained palette used by the artist in this portrait. By the time he painted Madeleine Escudier Lerolle (1856–1937), wife of artist Henry Lerolle, the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour had established a steady clientele in Britain for his floral still lifes, arranged in modest vases and depicted against a neutral ground; he included such a still life in this portrait. Madeleine Lerolle and her daughter Yvonne are the subjects of another painting at the CMA by Albert Besnard in gallery 219.
