Basket of Plums
1769
Anne Vallayer-Coster
Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744–1818)
European Painting and Sculpture
Basket of Plums, 1769. Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744–1818). Oil on canvas; unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1971.47 During the later part of the 1700s, fruit still lifes were extremely popular, and a basket of plums was a common motif. In Vallayer's painting the details, especially the plums and the basket, emerge from deep shadows. The colors are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its sparkling highlights and reflections.
- Maker/Artist
- Vallayer-Coster, Anne
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: "M.elle Vallayer / 1769"
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1971.47
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1971, Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France, Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still-Life Painting in the Age of Marie Antoinette, <em>Salon, </em>Paris, France (1771)., <em>English, French, Italian, Netherlandish, Spanish, and German Art</em>, National museum, Stockholm, Sweden (1918)., <em>Three Centuries of Still Life</em>, Göteborg Art Museum, Sweden, (April 28-May 17, 1938)., <em>Five Centuries of French Art</em>, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (15 August-9 November)., <em>Luis Melendez: Bodegones</em>, Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid, Spain (Feb. 17 - May 16, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 216B French and German
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