Peaches and Grapes

1894

Fantin-Latour’s still lifes were extremely popular in England, but they met with little critical success in his native France. Frustrated by this lack of appreciation, he produced fewer still lifes in the late 1800s, and those he did paint were done more for pleasure than for sale. This image, which conveys the shine on the grapes and the soft texture and full curves of ripe peaches, demonstrates the painter’s remarkable technical skill.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	10 3/4 x 14 5/16 in. (27.3 x 36.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.732
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Henri Fantin-Latour, Peaches and Grapes, 1894, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.732

Select Bibliography

Paris: Palais des Beaux-Arts.. Exposition de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour.. May-June, 1906.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Lucie-Smith, Edward. Fantin-Latour. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour.. Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour.. Paris: Henri Floury.. 1911.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

[Gustave Tempelaere, Paris]; Armand-François-Paul Desfriches, comte Doria (d. 1896, his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1899, no. 145, as Les pêches, sold to Pacquement); Alfred Pacquement, Paris (from 1899); [F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, sold to Clark, 19 Dec. 1912, as Nature morte (pêches dans une assiette et raisins noir)]; Robert Sterling Clark (1912–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.