Core Record |
| Title |
A Bowl of Fruit |
| Collection |
National Trust for Scotland (Brodie Castle) |
| Artist |
Vollon, Antoine (French painter, printmaker, 1833-1900) |
| Date Earliest |
probably 1850 |
| Date Latest |
probably 1900 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
The French painter Antoine Vollon was best known for vigorously painted still lifes, which are often marked by an interest in metallic surfaces and elegant porcelain. This small still life includes a blue and white dish with fruit, two shiny silver vessels and a spoon on a table, which is partly covered with a green cloth. |
| Current Accession Number |
73.23 |
| Inscription |
front lr 'A Vollon' |
| Subject |
still life |
| Measurements |
22.7 x 18 cm.0 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on panel |
| Acquisition Details |
Given by Ninian, 25th Brodie of Brodie, 1980. |
| Notes |
After working as a maker of enamelled metalwork and engraver, Vollon attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (1850-52). By 1858 he had joined a group of Romantic artists in Lyon. In 1859 Vollon moved to Paris, where he was encouaged by the Realist painter Théodule Ribot to paint genre and still-life scenes. Vollon achieved public recognition in 1864 after one of his genre pieces (a kitchen scene, now lost) was purchased by the state. In 1865 he earned a Salon medal for Interior of a Kitchen(Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes), a genre scene inspired by Chardin and seventeenth-century Dutch art. He exhibited at the Salon until 1880 and was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1897. His son Antoine (1865-1945) also painted genre scenes and still lifes but did not achieve the success of his father. |
| Rights Owner |
National Trust for Scotland |
| Author |
Dr Claudia Heide |
