Henri Fantin-Latour
(1836 - 1904)
 

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fantin-Latour

Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie Fantin-Latour
1859
Oil on canvas
60,5 x 85,5 cm)
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

This portrait of his sister was rejected by the Salon exhibition is 1859 for being unfinished. He had deliberately concentrated on her face and hands, leaving the clothes and background simply painted. Fantin-Latour’s work was instead exhibited, along with other works refused into the Salon exhibition, in the studio of the artist François Bouvin which became known as Boudin’s Atelier Flamand.