Marcel Proust mentions Fantin-Latour’s work in In Search of Lost Time:
Many young women’s hands would be incapable of doing what I see there,’ said the Prince, pointing to Mme de Villeparisis’s unfinished watercolours. And he has asked her whether she had seen the flower painting by Fantin-Latour which had recently been exhibited. (The Guermantes Way)
His first major UK gallery exhibition in 40 years took place at the Bowes Museum in April 2011.
The painting “A basket of roses” was used as the cover of New Order’s album Power, Corruption & Lies by Peter Saville in 1983.