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We look down onto nine pieces of fruit, a pitcher, a goblet, and a dish arranged on a rustic wood table in front of a floral curtain in this nearly square, loosely painted still life. The table extends off the left edge of the composition and the back, right corner of the table just touches the right edge of the canvas. At the center of the composition, five pieces of marigold-orange fruit with yellow highlights and scarlet-red shading are piled in the dish. The side of the dish to our right is slightly tipped up so the fruit settles near the rim to our left. The dish is painted with loose…
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Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

c. 1900

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.8 x 54.9 cm (18 1/16 x 21 5/8 in.) ; framed: 71.1 x 80 x 8.2 cm (28 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman
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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