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“Il faut avouer qu’il y a quelque chose de curieux à penser que le peintre des fleurs [Elstir] que les amateurs d’art nous citent aujourd’hui comme le premier, comme supérieur même à Fantin-Latour, n’aurait peut-étre jamais, sans la femme qui est là, [Mme Verdurin] su peindre un jasmin.” (Le temps retrouvé, 20)

“And one must admit that it is a curious thought that the artist [Elstir] who is cited by connoisseurs today as our leading flower-painter, superior even to Fantin-Latour, would perhaps never, without the help of the woman
[Mme Verdurin] beside me, have known how to paint jasmine.” (Time Regained, 34)


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Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Roses in a Vase, c.1880-c.1889
Oil on canvas, 32.39 x 34.93 cm (12 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.236

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