Roses by Fantin-Latour

For Dad, who loved flowers for those whom he loved.  

Happy Father's Day

Jacques-Emile Blanche (Atelier de Fantin-Latour, 1919) 

wrote of Fantin-Latour's painting:

:

Fantin studied each flower, each petal, its grain, its tissue,

as if it were a human face.*

Roses in a Glass Vase 1873

Roses and Nasturtiums in a Vase 1883

*Source:  http://venetianred.net/2010/02/24/the-paradox-of-henri-fantin-latour/

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