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Three apples and two pears sit next to a knife and a luminous, white mug on a tan, stone surface before a muted, olive-green background in this horizontal still life painting. The objects and background are painted with blended strokes, giving the painting a soft, glowing appearance. At the center of the ledge or table, the apples are dappled with candy red and pale yellow. Two golden and moss-green pears are to our left, one upright and the other lying with its stem coming toward us. The fruit is painted with white highlights from a light source to our left. The cream-white mug sits next to…

Still Life with a White Mug

Jean Siméon Chardin (French, 1699 - 1779)

c. 1764 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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