Love Poems (Third Plate)

Executed with loose, sketch‑like lines, the lithograph emphasizes gesture rather than finish. The artist’s handling of tone creates a soft, blurred background where trees and fog dissolve into one another, reinforcing a sense of ambiguity. This approach aligns the work with Symbolist aesthetics, where suggestion and atmosphere outweigh precise detail.

The print forms part of a series titled *Love Poems*, of which this is the third plate. Produced toward the end of Fantin‑Latour’s career, it reflects his late‑period interest in literary themes. The work has remained in private collections before entering museum holdings, where it is displayed as an example of late 19th‑century Symbolist printmaking.