We look down at the end of a narrow table at a white plate, pot, knife, and spoon set on the white tablecloth in this horizontal still life painting. The table angles from the top left down into the bottom right of the composition, and the corners of the table itself are cut off by the right and bottom edges of the canvas. At the left, a white ceramic vessel with a lid topped by a teardrop-shaped knob sits on a white saucer. The lid is notched and the handle of a utensil sticks out. To the right, a round white plate rests partly off the edge of the table. On the plate is a golden-yellow…
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Still Life with Mustard Pot

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904)

1860

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 26.04 × 40.01 cm (10 1/4 × 15 3/4 in.) ; framed: 33.81 × 47.31 × 3.49 cm (13 5/16 × 18 5/8 × 1 3/8 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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