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Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth
Also titled Drie perziken op een stenen plint
Adriaen Coorte (ca. –ca.)
1705
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 28.7 cm x width 21.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Transfer to the State in lieu of inheritance tax
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Coorte portrayed with the precision of a scientist. By isolating it, it is as if he wanted to get to the very essence of a peach or a gooseberry. Although these four paintings were not conceived as a series, they have formed an ensemble since the second half of the 18th century.
