Object: Still Life with Glass Jug, Fruit and Flowers

Title:

Still Life with Glass Jug, Fruit and Flowers

Object name(s):

Picture; French

Brief description:

A single mop-headed rose is caught in an intense beam of clear light, which also glitters down the graceful sweep of the handle of the slender jug placed opposite. Fantin-Latour has left the rest of the picture in semi-darkness, making it difficult to see which of the fruit in the pewter dish are plums and which are apples. They nestle in a bed of leaves, in an array of soft, deep colours from purple to mossy green.The delicate little picture was painted while Fantin-Latour was working in Courbet’s studio in Paris. He found Courbet ‘charming’, but picked up little of the older artist’s robust style. Nor does the painting have the confident technique that Fantin-Latour showed later in his career. But we see the seeds sown of his sensitive portrayal of flowers, which won him success as the most sought after decorative artist of his time.

Collection:

National Gallery

Accession date:

1917-01-01

Date - earliest / single:

1917

Date - latest:

1917

Acquisition source:

Sir Hugh Percy Lane

Credit line:

Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.

Current location:

Not on display

Current reproduction location:

2/740/387/249/mid_N-3248-00-000008.jpg

Dimension:

Height

Dimension measured part:

Overall

Dimension measurement unit:

cm

Dimension value:

47.00

Dimension:

Width

Dimension measured part:

Overall

Dimension measurement unit:

cm

Dimension value:

47.60

Form:

None

Inscription content:

Signed; Dated

Material:

oil on canvas

Material:

oil

Material:

canvas

Object name:

Picture; French

Object production date:

1861

Date - earliest / single:

1861

Date - latest:

1861

Object production date:

Date - period:

1850-74

Object production person:

Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour

Person's birth date:

1836

Person's death date:

1904

Object production place:

Britain

Other number:

NG3248

Other number type:

object number

Other number:

0G42-0001-0000-0000

Other number type:

PID

Other number:

NG3248

Other number type:

display number

Other number:

000-04P5-0000

Other number type:

PID (NG alternative)

Other number:

ng33248

Other number type:

sort number

Owner:

Sir Hugh Percy Lane

Responsible department/section:

Main Collection

Right note:

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Style:

flower and fruit paintings

Style:

realist

User's reference:

National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.

Reference details:

64

Reference note:

Latest catalogue

Reference type:

reference

User's reference:

The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue

Reference details:

222

Reference note:

Key bibliography

Reference type:

reference

User's reference:

Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.

Reference details:

Ill. (p. 159)

Reference type:

reference

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