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Description: | Signed: yes Description: After 1875 Fantin abandoned painting still-lifes that featured many types of fruit and flowers brought together in one complicated composition. Instead, he preferred to paint simple, small compositions focussing on one bouquet or on one bowl or basket of fruit. In this small but magnificent still-life our attention is firmly focussed on eight peaches (six of which we can see, two of which we assume to be there) lovingly presented on a rectangular wicker tray. Fantin convincingly captures both the ripe fullness of the peaches and suggests the soft, velvety texture of their skin. Here he has deliberately selected flat, thin green vine leaves to set the fruit upon - consciously setting up a contrast of colour, of texture and of form. Notice too how he has signed and dated the painting using a contrasting colour to that of the dark background. | Subjects: | still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Fantin-Latour, Henri (French painter and printmaker, 1836-1904) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8296... | Go to resource |
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