Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

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Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Sooted Timber · Brown family · #2D1510 · 26%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #8B8677 · 24%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #745F3B · 12%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #3C381F · 7%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #603A22 · 5%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #DDB997 · 5%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #491B14 · 5%

Lampblack · Black family · #150B08 · 4%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #682714 · 2%

Amber Varnish · Orange family · #C77E20 · 2%

Gilded Sun · Yellow family · #E9A51F · 2%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A9824A · 2%

Lampblack · Black family · #0D0B10 · 2%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #9A240E · 1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #374338 · <1%

Antique Rose Dust · Pink family · #AB8380 · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #868B94 · <1%

Limestone Dust · Gray family · #C5CBB6 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, by exchange, 1980

10 tags

Still Life Both · 100%

The catalog identifies the work as a still life, and the image presents an arranged group of inanimate objects including flowers, fruit, a vase, basket, table, cut fruit, and knife.
Food Both · 100%

Fruit is listed among the catalog subjects and is visibly prominent in the basket and across the foreground tabletop.
Flora Both · 100%

Flowers are listed among the catalog subjects and form the large bouquet at the center-right of the composition.

Earth Tones Visual · 91%

The composition is dominated by subdued browns, deep greens, muted blue-gray, ocher, cream, pink, and restrained reds, giving it an earth-toned overall palette.
Highly Detailed Visual · 89%

The image gives sustained descriptive attention to fruit skins, flower petals, leaves, woven basketry, the dark vase, and the wooden table.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog specifies oil on canvas as the medium.
Painting Metadata · 100%

The museum classifies the object as a painting.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The catalog dates the work to 1866, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

Vase Both · 98%

Vases are listed among the catalog subjects, and a tall, dark, footed vase is clearly visible beneath the bouquet.

Henri Fantin-Latour. Still Life with Flowers and Fruit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.