Tag: still life

Le melon (c.1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le melon (The Melon) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 46.67 × 56.52 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le melon c.1880 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne    

Poires (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Poires (Pears) 1880 Oil on canvas, 19.05 × 24.13 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal…

Fleurs dans un vase de cristal (c.1882)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Fleurs dans un vase de cristal (Flowers in a Crystal Vase) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 x 24.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A bouquet of cut flowers in a clear glass vase nearly fills this vertical…

Le moulin à café (1916)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Le moulin à café (The Coffee Mill) 1916 Oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland A member of Picasso‘s intimate circle, Gris began painting austere Cubist compositions around 1910. After 1915, his compositions…

Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (c.1882)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (Chickens, Game Birds, and Hares) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Caillebotte balanced the notion of the wild with the orderly in this painting, as…

A Basket of Flowers (1620s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) A Basket of Flowers probably 1620s Oil on wood, 47 x 68.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan Brueghel the Younger was part of an artistic dynasty that transformed Flemish landscape, genre, and still-life…

Nature morte aux fraises (1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux fraises (Still Life with Strawberries) 1914 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 44.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Still-life paintings often suggest a human presence, implying the viewer’s bodily relationship to a tabletop and investing inanimate…