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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This late still life illustrates Bonvin's continued interest in Chardin. Bonvin has taken the basic elements of this composition from a painting by Chardin in the Louvre. At this time Bonvin wrote regular letters to his pupil, Delaisse, in which, as well as recording all the latest gossip, he mentions his fear that as young painters are no longer studying the Old Masters, they are not learning how to paint properly. Against a dark background Bonvin depicts three pears, a knife, a glass of wine and a cracked walnut resting on a table or counter. The picture space is narrow and confined but by making subtle use of reflections - on the metal blade of the knife and on the glass - and by showing the light falling on the hard surface of the pears and the table, Bonvin conveys a marvellously 'real' quality to these painted objects. | Subjects: | still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bonvin, François (French painter and printmaker, 1817-1887) Æ After Chardin, Jean-Siméon (French painter and draftsman, 1699-1779) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8300... | Go to resource |
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