Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

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Artist: Paul Cézanne
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Tarnished Aquamarine · Teal family · #578F8F · 35%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #20464C · 14%

Slate Night · Black family · #18282F · 13%

Hammered Copper Brown · Brown family · #815534 · 11%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #72A2A2 · 7%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #C3D5C7 · 5%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #A0BBBA · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #81834F · 4%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #3F6161 · 3%

Faded Indigo · Blue family · #617386 · 2%

Mossed Limestone · Green family · #6F856F · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #131015 · <1%

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Granite Face · Gray family · #726473 · <1%

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Copper Green Enamel · Green family · #52996D · <1%

Copper Green Enamel · Green family · #45A674 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951

11 tags

Still Life Both · 99%

The catalog identifies the work as a still life, and the image visibly presents apples, a flowering plant, a pot, and cloth arranged on a tabletop.
Food Both · 99%

Apples are explicitly listed in the catalog subjects and are visibly distributed across the cloth and tabletop.
Flora Both · 96%

The title identifies primroses, while the image clearly shows abundant leaves and pale pink blossoms rising from the pot.
Group of Objects Visual · 88%

The composition is dominated by an arranged collection of apples, cloth, a flowering plant, a pot, and surrounding tabletop elements.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 88%

The image uses strongly contrasting turquoise, blue-green, orange, red, yellow, green, and white passages.
Dense Composition Visual · 94%

Apples and cloth overlap across much of the lower picture plane, while the plant and darker right-side forms make the arrangement visually compact and active.
Asymmetrical Visual · 94%

The plant rises prominently on the right while the apples spread laterally across the lower portion, producing an intentionally uneven visual balance.

Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art specifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 85%

Brush marks remain visibly present across the cloth, apples, foliage, and blue-green background rather than forming a uniformly smooth surface.

Late 19th Century Art Metadata · 97%

The catalog dates the work to circa 1890, with a recorded range of 1885–1895.

Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.