Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
Self-portrait (1859), Museum of Grenoble
Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit (1865)
Still Life with Flowers, Fruits, Wineglass and a Tea Cup (1865)
Flowers and Fruit (1866)
Lithography is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author and actor Alois Senefelder and was initially used mostly for musical scores and maps. Lithography can be used to print text or images onto paper or other suitable material. A lithograph is something printed by lithography, but this term is only used for fine art prints and some other, mostly older, types of printed matter, not for those made by modern commercial lithography.
A lithograph of Charles Marion Russell's The Custer Fight (1903), with the range of tones fading toward the edges
This very early colour lithograph from 1835 uses large washes of orange and cyan with black ink providing the details.
A lithographer at work, 1880
Lithography machine in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
