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Still Life with Peaches, 1881 (Nature Morte aux Pêches) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Still Life with Peaches, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1881, piles ripe peaches high in a blue-and-white faience jardinière, with loose apples and pears scattered across the white tablecloth before it and an ornate red-and-gold tapestry filling the background. Painted at Wargemont, the country home of his patron Paul Bérard, Renoir gave the fruit a velvety, light-catching softness while letting the decorative tapestry behind add warmth and pattern to the composition. It is the companion piece to a second Wargemont still life that adds a cluster of grapes to the same jardinière, the two works painted in contrasting color harmonies during the same stay.
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1881.
Still Life with Peaches, 1881 (Nature Morte aux Pêches) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Wargemont Fruit Canvas Print.