“According to Pierre Courthion, “Not since the great Flemish masters has any artist been more capable of endowing flower painting with so much brilliance, so many shadings and so vivid a use of color than Fantin-Latour (P. Courthion, “Fantin-Latour, Painter of Flowers” in Henri Fantin-Latour, exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, 1966). The extraordinary … Continue reading Henri Fantin-Latour: Roses et capucines