dinner, replete with crystal ware, place settings, and chairs offered to the viewer. Indeed, often his still lifes open onto the populated spaces of genre painting and are indistinguishable from them. But the most important painter of expanded-space bourgeois still lifes was Fantin-Latour, and where the example set by Chardin is not felt in Caillebotte's luxury tabletops, it still underlies the work of Fantin-Latour, both in his simple fruit pieces and in his more complex flower-piece table corners, whose containers contrasted to loose fruit are reminiscent of the same device in Chardin's work, and in his signature facture, which has something of the feel of Chardin's han- dling, though much refined and muted. And Fantin-Latour was extremely important 16 for Cézanne, particularly for his flower pieces. Figure 27 Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904} St/7/ Life with Torso and Flowers, 1874 Oil on canvas, 116 x 90 cm 5 7 (45 /s x 35 /ie in.) Gôteborg, Sweden, Gôteborgs Konstmuseum 59 THE LANDSCAPE OF STILL LIFE