Three whole, green pears against a caramel-brown background fill this horizontal still life painting. The painting was created with long, parallel, visible brushstrokes throughout, and a strip of unpainted canvas lines the top edge. We look slightly down onto the fruit, which was painted with thick strokes of lemon-lime, asparagus, and spring green, and each piece of fruit is outlined with navy blue. The two pears to either side stand up and the third, between them, lies on the table with its brown stem angled to our left.
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Three Pears

painter Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

1878/1879

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 20 x 25.7 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.) ; framed: 37.47 x 43.5 x 6.35 cm (14 3/4 x 17 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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