Still Life with Peaches

Colors in this work

Artist: Auguste Renoir
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 x 25 1/2 in. (53.3 x 64.8 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Oiled Oak · Brown family · #7C6548 · 24%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #A2A9B9 · 19%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #AC966B · 9%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #677556 · 6%

Oiled Oak · Brown family · #90512A · 6%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #52291D · 6%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #5F4230 · 6%

Aubergine Glaze · Purple family · #4F4A69 · 5%

Clay Tablet · Brown family · #805A51 · 4%

Aubergine Glaze · Purple family · #1F1E33 · 4%

Pine Needle · Green family · #3A534A · 3%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #A35916 · 3%

Archive Wax Red · Red family · #6F4B4F · 2%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #C0BB91 · 2%

Lampblack · Black family · #090802 · <1%

Lead Type · Gray family · #897883 · <1%

Studio Smalt · Blue family · #666FAD · <1%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #D5DDE9 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960

10 tags

Still Life Both · 99%

The catalog identifies the work as a still life, and the image centers on arranged fruit and a serving dish without figures or an event.
Food Both · 99%

Peaches are listed as a catalog subject, and the image visibly shows numerous peach-like fruits arranged in the central dish and on the tabletop.
Group of Objects Visual · 90%

Multiple discrete objects—fruit, a decorated serving dish, cloth, and patterned textile—are gathered into one tabletop arrangement.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 93%

The painting uses strongly saturated warm and cool passages, including reds, oranges, yellows, blues, greens, and violets.
Patterns Visual · 97%

Repeated ornamental motifs are visible on the dish and throughout the patterned textile behind the fruit.
Highly Ornamented Visual · 84%

The decorated dish and richly patterned background textile create an extensively embellished setting around the fruit.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog specifies oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 96%

Short, visible strokes and layered marks are apparent across the fruit, dish, textile, and tabletop, creating a loose, animated surface.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The work is dated 1881 in the catalog metadata.

Auguste Renoir. Still Life with Peaches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.