Tag: still life

Una taza de agua y una rosa (c.1630)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Una taza de agua y una rosa (A Cup of Water and a Rose) c.1630 Oil on canvas, 21.2 × 30.1 cm National Gallery, London In this small and intimate painting – it only measures around 20 by…

La Cheminée (1905)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée (The Mantelpiece) 1905 Oil on cardboard, 51.4 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London This picture – a combination of interior scene and still-life painting – shows Vuillard’s room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. His friends Jos and…

Oysters (1891)

Scholderer, Otto (1834-1902) Oysters (Austern) 1891 Oil on canvas, 25 x 42 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff

Lilac (c.1860-1902)

Scholderer, Otto (1834-1902) Lilac c.1860–1902 Oil on canvas, 50 × 37 cm National Gallery, London This still-life painting depicts five or six stems of lilac in a tall glass vase, set against a two-tone neutral grey background. Flower still lifes enjoyed…

Un vase de fleurs (1896)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Un vase de fleurs (A Vase of Flowers) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64 × 74 cm National Gallery, London Gauguin painted this still life soon after he had arrived in Tahiti for his second and final stay in…

Une assiette de pommes (1861)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Une assiette de pommes (A Plate of Apples) 1861 Oil on canvas, 20 × 26.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Mrs Edwin Edwards 1907. This work was painted while Fantin-Latour was visiting Mr and Mrs…

Fantômas (1915)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Fantômas 1915 Oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater program, pipe, a black and white checkerboard, and other objects painted as abstracted, geometric forms…