Still Life With Peaches – 18th Century French School

Oil on canvas. The most beautiful peaches I have ever seen!
Fruit and foliage, in apparent disorganization, are carefully arranged on a table covered with a heavy brown tablecloth forming a harmonious whole. Thus melons, peaches, plums and grapes offer themselves to our gaze, whetting our appetite. In the furrow traced by Jean Siméon Chardin (Paris 1699 – Id. 1779), our painter explores the sensuality of natural objects and marvelously restores the velvety texture of peach skin. Unlike the still life paintings of the previous century, any idea of vanity is abandoned here. In a cozy atmosphere, our composition is a real ode to summer and the fruits it offers us. Still considered a minor genre in the 18th century, the still life continues to attract talented artists who will develop the register. Religious or allegorical connotations are gradually abandoned and the paintings of entablatures evolve towards representations of various colors and shapes, displaying ordinary foods with voluptuousness. Just as Anne Vallayer-Coster (Paris 1744 – Id. 1818) invites us to meditate on the beauty of the foods that garnish our tables, our painter stages the fruits of summer against a dark background. Melons, peaches, plums and grapes thus become subjects of reflection.

In an old carved wood and paste frame in the Louis XV style.
Dimensions: 49 x 53 cm – 75 x 79 cm with the frame