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| Title | Peaches | |
| Collection | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Artist | Vollon, Antoine (French painter, printmaker, 1833-1900) | |
| Date Earliest | probably about 1870 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1875 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | The painting by the French Realist painter Antoine Vollon depicts a still life of a dish of peaches, a silver coffee pot, a glass decanter and some foliage on a table top. Vollon was well known for his still lifes, landscapes and figures. In 1859, he moved to Paris to study and was encouraged by Théodule Ribot, to paint genre and still life scenes. Vollon was influenced by Ribot and the Dutch seventeenth century still life paintings. His work was technically highly sophisticated and he depicted the surfaces, light and texture of his objects with great detail. | |
| Current Accession Number | 271 | |
| Inscription | front ur ' A. Vollon' | |
| Subject | still life | |
| Measurements | 75.0 x 67 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by J. G. Graves 1935. | |
| Provenance | L. Thompson sale, Christie's, London, 1930, lot 115, bought by J. G. Graves. | |
| Publications | Bénézit, E. (ed.),Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs Paris,1976; Thieme, U., Becker, F. (ed.) Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1980-86. | |
| Rights Owner | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Author | Katia Mai | |