Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: 1896
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 3/4 x 26 in. (47.6 x 66 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #4E4D2E · 14%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #B0C3AE · 14%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #072430 · 14%

Celadon Body · Green family · #74967A · 13%

Oiled Oak · Brown family · #81592F · 11%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #3D6B71 · 8%

Pine Needle · Green family · #22372A · 5%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #002949 · 5%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #1B4B5C · 5%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #001019 · 4%

Gamboge Glaze · Yellow family · #D7C01E · 3%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #101329 · 2%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #382513 · 2%

Indigo Banner · Blue family · #034570 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #110703 · <1%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #9AB6BC · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #DCBDA6 · <1%

Lapis Dust · Blue family · #006092 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

9 tags

Still Life Both · 99%

The image depicts an arranged composition of inanimate objects, and the catalog identifies the subject as “Still Life.”
Food Both · 98%

Several fruits are visibly arranged across the tabletop, and “Fruit” is listed among the catalog subjects.
Representations of Everyday Objects Both · 95%

The prominent teapot and other domestic vessels are visible in the composition, while “Teapots” is listed among the catalog subjects.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

Highly saturated blue, yellow, orange, green, and white passages create pronounced chromatic contrasts throughout the composition.
Dense Composition Visual · 94%

The tabletop is filled by overlapping vessels, fruit, cloth, and floral forms, leaving limited open space and producing a compact arrangement.

Painting Both · 100%

The work is visibly a painted image, and the catalog classifies it as a painting.
Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog records the medium as oil on canvas.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The catalog dates the work to 1896, placing it within the nineteenth century.

French Art Metadata · 96%

The catalog artist display identifies Paul Gauguin as French; this supports a broad French-art regional association without asserting the work’s place of execution.

Paul Gauguin. Still Life with Teapot and Fruit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.