Still Life with Peaches and Grapes
Colors in this work
Details
- Artist
- Auguste Renoir
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65.1 cm)
- Department
- European Paintings
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1956
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Still Life Both · 99%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the work as a still life, and the image shows fruit and a vessel arranged on a tabletop without figures or narrative action.
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Food Both · 99%
Grapes and peaches are listed in the museum metadata and are clearly visible throughout the composition.
Visual Qualities
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Pastel Colors Visual · 88%
The composition is dominated by pale blue, blue-green, cream, peach, pink, and light yellow tones, giving the image a generally soft, pastel-like color effect despite some stronger accents in the fruit and grapes.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum records the medium as oil on canvas.
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Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 90%
Broad, freely varied strokes are visible in the blue-green background, cloth, fruit, and vessel, with forms modeled through layered rather than sharply delineated marks.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1881 in the museum catalog, placing it in the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 97%
The catalog identifies Auguste Renoir as French.
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Bowl Visual · 95%
A large, shallow, blue-and-white decorated serving vessel occupies the center of the composition and supports the peaches.
Source & rights
Auguste Renoir. Still Life with Peaches and Grapes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 4,000 × 3,353 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available