Tag: still life

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 Tate Britain, London This work was painted while Fantin-Latour was visiting Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards in Sunbury near London in 1861. Also…

Nature morte à la cruche (c.1892-1893)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Nature morte à la cruche (Still Life with Water Jug) c.1892–1893 Oil on canvas, 53 × 71.1 cm Tate Britain, London Cézanne was preoccupied with still life, and painted the same objects over and over again. His concentrated…

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…

Le Brochet (1888)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Le Brochet (The Pike) 1888 Oil on canvas, 41.9 x 80.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In dabs of paint, Sisley captures the light sparkling on this magnificent pike and the bright sprig of herbs nearby. The rumpled linen,…