Love Disarmed

Artist Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904)

Date1892

MediumLithograph

DimensionsImage: 12 1/8 × 8 1/4 inches (30.8 × 20.96 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan

Object number53-51/272

SignedLower right: A Madam Edwards / L. Fantin

Edition/State/Proof2nd plate

On View

Not on view

Collections

Prints

Terms

Exhibition History

[one of the artist’s prints of this subject was exhibited in the Salon of 1892.]

Provenance

Possibly with Mrs. Edwin Edwards (née Elizabeth Ruth Escombe, ca.1833-1907), Sunbury-on-Thames and London [1];

Frances M. Logan (1954-1946), Kansas City, MO, by 1946;

Bequeathed by Frances M. Logan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] See inscription on bottom of lithograph: À Madame Edwards / L. Fantin. Ruth Edwards was the widow of the landscape painter and etcher, and Fantin-Latour’s London dealer, Edwin Edwards (1823-1879). She continued to act as Fantin-Latour’s dealer after her husband’s death.

Published References

Germain Hédiard, Fantin-Latour catalogue de l’oeuvre lithographique du maître (Paris: Librairie de l’art ancien et moderne, 1906), no. 98, pp. 21, 39, 44, 58-59, as L’Amour désarmé.

Victoria Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre complet de Fantin-Latour (Amsterdam: B.M. Israël and Da Capo Press, 1969), no. 1490.

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 297, as Love Disarmed.

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