A portrait of Mr. Fantin's sister. She is dressed in a plain black dress and sits three quarters to the right, reading. Her left hand supports the open book on which her other hand is placed to hold the sheet.
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 136
Additional information accompanying item: Margins rectified. Signature below, to the left - "Fantin." Second state - plain margins. Executed in 1897 directly on the stone. Imp. Clot. Reproduction of a picture refused at the Salon of 1859. Appeared in the booklet of G. Hédiard - "les Lithographies nouvelles de Fantin-Latour," 1899.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Hédiard, Germain. "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." Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906, Paris.
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