Madame Lerolle (1882): Art, History and Details

Madame Lerolle (1882) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: Madame Lerolle
• Date: 1882
• Creator attribution: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• 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.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1969.54

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange

Further reading listed by the museum

• Bénédite, Léonce. Fantin-Latour; étude critique, catalogue des oeuvres conservées dans les musées, liste des oeuvres exposées aux salons - Fantin-Latour lithographe, catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographié et gravé. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1903.
• Bénédite, Léonce. . L'œuvre de Fantin-Latour; recueil de cinquante reproductions d'après les principaux chefs-d'œuvre du maître réunis à l'occasion de l'exposition organisée à l'École nationale des beaux-arts, sous le patronage de m. le ministre de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts et de m. le sous-secrétaire d'état des beaux-arts. Paris: Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, 1906.
• Jullien, Adolphe. Fantin-Latour, Sa Vie et Ses Amitiés; Lettres Inédites et Souvenirs Personnels, avec Cinquante-Trois Reproductions d'œuvres du Maitre, Tirées a Part, Six Autographes et Vingt-Deux Illustrations dans le Texte. Paris: L. Laveur, 1909.

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