Autumn Still Life With Peaches, Grapes And Nuts / Dated 1878 / André Grangé / Oil On Canvas

This beautiful still life by André Grangé demonstrates remarkable pictorial expertise inherited from the great naturalist tradition of the 19th century. The painter displays a keen sense of composition, light, and material in a scene of understated elegance.

38 x 46 without frame
53 x 61 with frame

On a deep brown background, the wooden table holds a woven basket of walnuts, a symbol of autumnal abundance, surrounded by peaches in pink and gold tones, and a bunch of translucent white grapes, rendered with almost tactile precision. The light, soft and directed, caresses the volumes, creating a subtle balance between shadow and brightness, between the rigor of the drawing and the sensuality of the forms. Each fruit, each shell, each leaf is treated with meticulous attention, revealing the technical virtuosity of the artist, sensitive to the texture of the surfaces — the roughness of the basket, the velvety softness of the peaches, the translucency of the grapes. The whole is part of a warm and harmonious palette, dominated by ochres and browns, where the luminous highlights bring the composition to life. This work is fully in line with 19th-century French still lifes, in the tradition of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Henri Fantin-Latour, or Claude Ramey, where the simplicity of the subject becomes a pretext for a refined study of light and the rendering of materials. Frame The work is presented in a magnificent antique frame, richly molded and adorned with a decoration of pearls and fluting, typical of the end of the 19th century. This frame, with its golden patina slightly softened by time, ideally highlights the warmth and depth of the painting.