Petunias, 1881

  • Henri Fantin-Latour, French, 1836-1904

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 15 1/4 × 23 1/8 inches (38.7 × 58.7 cm)
  • 23 3/4 × 31 7/8 × 3 inches (60.3 × 81 × 7.6 cm)

Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head, in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head

1985.26

On View

  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed and dated, upper right: Fantin.81

by 1966, Ruth Nugent Head (Mrs. Henry W. Nugent Head) (New York, New York, USA)

1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Fantin-Latour, Mme. Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour. Paris, 1911, p. 107, no. 1033. Gibson, F. The Art of Henri Fantin-Latour: His Life and Work. London, 1924, p. 115, pl. XXXIII. Flowers by Fantin-Latour. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 1966, cat. 19 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 62, no. 2 (1985): pp. 13, 19 (fig. 1). Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed, Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg and New York, 1995, p. 52 (fig. 1).

Henri Fantin-Latour, Petunias, 1881, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head, in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head, 1985.26.