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Vérité

Artist Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904)
Date1900
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsImage: 7 5/16 × 5 7/16 inches (18.57 × 13.81 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 9 1/16 inches (29.37 × 23.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert L. Bloch
Object number2004.25.1
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionUnder tree, left, nude woman, body facing left, head front, seated on draped circular plinth, proper left arm held over her head, grasping drapery attached to handle of mirror held aloft in right hand, more drapery hanging below itExhibition History

Gifts to the Print Collection in Recent Years, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 21, 1993-January 9, 1994, no cat., as The Musician.

The Naked and the Nude: Representations of the Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 24, 2006-April 29, 2007, no cat., as The Musician.

The Naked and the Nude: Representations of the Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2013-February 23, 2014, no cat., as The Musician.

Provenance

Robert L. (b. 1952) and Barbara E. (née Klugman, b. 1958) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, by September 19, 1988;

Given by Robert L. and Barbara E. Bloch to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1988.

Published References

Germain Hédiard, Fantin-Latour catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographique du maître, précédé d'une étude par Germain Hédiard et d'une notice sur Germain Hédiard par Léonce Bénédite, new ed. (Paris: Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906), no. 13, p. 46, as Le Musicien.

Mme. [Victoria Dubourg] Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Œuvre complet de Fantin-Latour (1849-1904) (Amsterdam: B.M. Israel, 1969), no. 861, p. 92, as Le Musicien.

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

Rainer Michael Mason, Fantin-Latour Lithographies, exh. cat. (Geneva: Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1980).

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