Book  (1967)  Page(s) 41.  
 
For over 300 years, from the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the earliest rose-red forms of R. centifolia were produced, to the middle of the nineteenth century, when such lovely types as La Noblesse, Fantin Latour, Blanchefleur and Paul Ricault appeared, Dutch and French breeders worked carefully and patiently to perfect this new type of rose.

Book  (1967)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Sacheverell Sitwell and James Russell in Old Garden Roses name Fantin Latour and La Noblesse as two of the most glorious Centifolias. The former was called after the great French painter of flowers and is an exquisite rose that grows into a very large, very free-flowering shrub. Actually, in our garden, it has now travelled up through a tall Rhus cotinoides, the smoke bush; and the two shrubs look delightful together, as the rose festoons down through the branches and out over the tennis court. It is not a typical Centifolia, since the Damask influence is very strong, both in the soft, uniform pink of the quartered flat flowers, and the heady perfume. These blooms, often with a green eye in the centre of the incurving small petals, come in clusters, and keep opening out for quite a long time, making it a plant that pays big dividends in a shrub border. ..

Book  (1955)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Two of the most glorious Centifolias are 'La Noblesse' and 'Fantin-Latour'; but they could be listed as good medium roses, they are not of the sensational order of 'Ispahan' or the 'Rose à feuilles de laitue'. Yet they flower plentifully; and I would be inclined to place 'Fantin Latour' not far behind 'l'Impératrice Joséphine', though neither of them come into my own theory of the most beautiful of all roses.

Book  (1954)  Includes photo(s).
 
p23. Graham S. Thomas. ….dividing the flower into “quarters”. This is noticeable in such varieties as 'Fantin Latour' and ….

p89. b/w photo. The centifolia variety 'Fantin Latour'. Foliage, flower, fragrance and flowering period, all first class.

Book  (1952)  Page(s) 105.  
 
A. T. Johnson. Shrub Roses at Bulkeley Mill. ….and the inestimable ‘Fantin-Latour' - included here by courtesy – its large flat blossoms being closely doubled and a bright yet warm pink.

Book  (1950)  Page(s) 60.  
 
to the front of it we have the bush-like ’Fontin Latour’, with a splendid foliage and equally impressive blossoms – large and flat and a bright rose pink – a rose I find it difficult to classify (Syn. ‘Rose des Peintres)….

Website/Catalog  (1938)  
 
Fantin-Latour ....Lovely cupped pink flowers in great profusion. A variety to let go of its own will and make a 6-ft bush clothed to the base. Moderate scent. Vigorous.

Book  (1938)  Page(s) 47.  
 
E. A. Bunyard. The Rose in Art. After Redoute came Fantin Latour, a painter whose days fell in the period of the Tea Rose, and who after a long period of neglect, has now come into his own. His Roses have a luminosity which, I think, no other painter has equalled, his colours glow as if the light were coming through the petals.

Website/Catalog  (1913)  
 
George Bunyard & Co catalogues 1904-5, 1905-6 and 1911-12-13 Winter Seasons

[No mention Fantin Latour in any of the above catalogues. Information kindly supplied by Pat Toolan]