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Madame Lerolle
Henri Fantin-Latour1882
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Fantin-Latour exhibited this portrait of Madeleine Lerolle, wife of fellow artist Henry Lerolle, at the Paris Salon of 1882. The Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the national art academy of the French government. At the time of this portrait, Madeleine Lerolle was 26 years old. Albert Besnard portrayed her more formally in his painting Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne, currently on display in the other Romanticism to Realism gallery.
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- Title: Madame Lerolle
- Creator: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
- Date Created: 1882
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 132.4 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (52 1/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 108.2 x 78.9 cm (42 5/8 x 31 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: Family of the sitter. Hector Brame, Paris. Purchased by the CMA on 10 May 1969.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.54
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Fantin / 1882
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1969.54
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