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# How a 19th-Century Painter Turned from Reality to Fantasy
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-a-19th-century-painter-turned-from-reality-to-fantasy/
- Published: 2017-02-03T23:16:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-25T12:53:29.000Z
- Description: In his early, clear-eyed paintings, Henri Fantin-Latour’s subject was the reality of the observable world itself. Toward the end of his career, faithful reproductions no longer satisfied the artist.
- Author: Joseph Nechvatal
- Tags: Art, Musée du Luxembourg, realism, Review, Symbolism, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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