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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The painting is a still life of fruit in a basket, consisting of peaches and grapes. There is also a peacock feather in the basket, and a Red Admiral butterfly perched on a grape stem in the centre. This is a typical Dutch still life, of a style that changed relatively little in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when artists developed a whole range of subject matter to compensate for the restrictions on religious imagery under Calvinism. Pieter Gerardus van Os was one of a large family of artists who specialised in this type of subject matter. | Subjects: | still life (grapes basket) butterfly peacock feather peaches | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Os, Pieter Gerardus van (Dutch painter, 1776-1839) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8694... | Go to resource |
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