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| | Still Life with Peaches, a Silver Goblet, Grapes and Walnuts |
Date : near 1760
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting (Still Life)
Area related
France
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Immensely popular among eighteenth-century collectors, Chardin gave modest objects monumentality by arranging them in geometric groupings. Most still life specialists in this period aimed to elevate their work -considered less significant than portraiture or religious and historical subjects- by painting opulent displays of luxury goods or allegories about the passage of time. By contrast, Chardin crafted spare studies of form and light, inspiring later painters such as Paul Cézanne.
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Still life
"Still life" is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (flowers, game, sea shells and the like) or man-made (drinking glasses, foodstuffs, pipes, books and so on).
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