Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour, known as Henri Fantin-Latour, who was born in Grenoble on January 14, 1836 and died in Buré on August 25, 1904, is a French realist and intimiste painter and lithographer.His still-lifes, flowers or fruits, have always found buyers; his interior scenes are realized in an almost monochrome range of gray and brown. It was his friend Whistler who drew attention to Fantin in England at a time when French Impressionist painting was a little appreciated in that country. He thus put him in touch with his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden and the engraver Edwin Edwards. Passionate about music, especially Berlioz, Schumann, and Wagner, Fantin sought to transcribe it through fluid paintings executed in long strokes (Three Daughters of the Rhine, 1876) and devoted most of his lithographs to him. His portraits of his wife Victoria Dubourg, or of his friends, Manet, Verlaine, have a harmonious and incisive realism. Like many painters of his time, he became interested in photography, taking pictures for his work. He was also a great collector of erotic photos, his estate counts more than 1,400 of them, which are kept in the Grenoble Museum.