Henri FANTIN-LATOUR (Grenoble 1836- Buré 1904)

The wedding at Cana Canvas 60.5 x 43 cm Signed and dated lower left Fantin sept. 1856 (Accidents) No frame Bibliography : V. Fantin - Latour, Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849 - 1904) de Fantin - Latour, Paris, 1911, no. 61, (whereabouts unknown). Our painting is a reproduction of the right-hand side of the 1563 painting by Veronese in the Louvre. It is the first copy, painted in 1856 by Fantin - Latour. Fantin -Latour copied several of the great masters he admired, including Veronese, Giorgione, Titian, Rubens... He made several copies of the Wedding at Cana between 1856 and 1870. Most were commissions. The 1857 copy was painted for the collector Beecher - Srtowe. In 1859, Fantin - Latour painted a small canvas for Monsieur Pina, of Mexico City. The 1861 copy was for Sir F. Seymour Haden, and the 1865 copy for Monsieur Dilberoglou. The 1867 copy, for Monsieur Homer, is now in the Ulster Museum (Ireland).