Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal still life painting. The left pear sits upright against the other. The left-hand pear’s laurel-green skin is flecked with dark brown, and its black stem tips to our left. The other pear lies on its side with its stem angled toward the table to our right. Its lighter green skin is tinged with peach along its top curve. The surface beneath the pears is loosely painted with ice blue flecked with gray, blush pink, and sky blue, perhaps suggesting marble. The front, right…
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Pears

Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

1880

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 19.05 × 24.13 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.) ; framed: 26.67 × 32.23 × 2.7 cm (10 1/2 × 12 11/16 × 1 1/16 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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