Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

Colors in this work

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: Seaworn Fresco · Teal family · #5A838E · 27%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #939C75 · 14%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #7FA1A9 · 13%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #CFCEBB · 10%

Mossed Limestone · Green family · #658877 · 9%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #9F7659 · 8%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #9DB5B7 · 6%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #3B636F · 3%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #024D5F · 3%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #D5CBBB · 3%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #74859F · 1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #000D17 · 1%

Plum Wool · Purple family · #5C4D64 · <1%

Azurite Panel · Blue family · #2E699B · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #150B06 · <1%

Sanguine Study · Red family · #B24036 · <1%

Peacock Enamel · Teal family · #00778E · <1%

Citron Enamel · Yellow family · #D2CF62 · <1%

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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

8 tags

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.
Food Both · 99%

Grapes and peaches are listed in the museum metadata and are clearly visible throughout the composition.

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.

Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The museum records the medium as oil on canvas.
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.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The work is dated 1881 in the museum catalog, placing it in the nineteenth century.

Bowl Visual · 95%

A large, shallow, blue-and-white decorated serving vessel occupies the center of the composition and supports the peaches.

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