Marquis de Biron

French, 1859 - 1939

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, A Young Man in a Broad Hat, c. 1745, black and white chalks on light brown laid paper, Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1997.57.7

A Young Man in a Broad Hat

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · c. 1745 · black and white chalks on light brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  1997.57.7

Light from the upper left falls across a glass, a pitcher, peaches in a basket, and other fruit arranged along a brown tabletop or ledge in this horizontal still life painting. The arrangement fills the height and width of the composition, and the table and most of the back wall are mottled with pecan brown and fern green. The background along the left edge of the composition is in deep shadow behind a translucent, wide-mouthed glass. Thin streaks of pale pink and white create reflections in the glass, and a brown hazelnut sits next to it. Moving right and a little farther back on the table, a tall, cinnamon-brown jug is turned so its handle faces us. A low, woven basket piled with at least six peaches sits next to the jug, filling most of the right half of the painting. The basket is lined with pine-green leaves, and the peaches have butter-yellow highlights. Three pieces of fruit sit on the table in front of the basket and jug: two small, frosty green, round pieces are connected by a shared stem and the larger, third piece of fruit is plum purple.
Jean Siméon Chardin, Fruit, Jug, and a Glass, c. 1726/1728, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.7.4

Fruit, Jug, and a Glass

Jean Siméon Chardin · c. 1726/1728 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.7.4

A shiny, fern-green ceramic pitcher holds four cream-white and two ruby-red peonies on a brown tabletop, presumably wood, in this vertical, stylized still life painting. This was created with loose, visible brushstrokes so some details are difficult to make out. The four peonies clustered to our right are painted with textured strokes of cream white and pale butter yellow. The two red flowers to our left are similarly painted with long, parallel strokes. The leaves are painted with moss and sage green, with vivid royal blue for the shadows. The pitcher has a wide mouth over only slightly pinched neck, and a handle is situated to our right. Cobalt-blue, widely spaced, vertical stripes are flanked by fawn-brown zigzagging lines. The tabletop is painted as a field of brown, separated from the background with a line of navy blue. The background is made with long strokes in aqua, light blue, and celery green that curve around the flowers in the upper right corner. The artist signed the painting with dark blue paint in the lower right corner, “Piicasso,” adding an extra I.
Pablo Picasso, Peonies, 1901, oil on hardboard mounted on plywood, Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1981.41.1

Peonies

Pablo Picasso · 1901 · oil on hardboard mounted on plywood ·  Accession ID  1981.41.1