A blue and white bowl overflowing with grapes, two loose bunches of grapes, and a vivid pink carnation lie on a white tablecloth against a dark brown background in this still life painting. The grapes vary from bright, translucent green, green with pink tones, and dark purple. The bowl is to the left of center, and it and the grapes it holds take up most of the left two-thirds of the composition. A bunch of grapes shaded green and pink and a bunch of dark, almost black grapes sits to the right of the bowl, and the short-stemmed carnation lies between us and those loose bunches. The table…
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Still Life with Grapes and a Carnation

painter Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904)

c. 1880

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 30.5 x 47 cm (12 x 18 1/2 in.) ; framed: 40.32 x 56.52 x 5.72 cm (15 7/8 x 22 1/4 x 2 1/4 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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