Still Life with Peaches

Auguste Renoir

1881 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Reviewers of the 1882 Impressionist exhibition were dazzled by this "very appealing" still life of "a certain fruit bowl of 'Peaches,' whose velvety execution verges on a trompe l'oeil." Painted the previous summer at the country house of Renoir’s patron Paul Berard, it is one of two still lifes that feature the same faïence jardinière; the other version also belongs to the Metropolitan Museum (56.218).

Artist

Auguste Renoir

Date

1881

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960