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Théodore Bonjean

Bonjean, Théodore

French, 1861 - 1913

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The image shows a still life of round fruits, such as grapes and peaches, placed on a white plate. The color scheme consists of warm browns, muted greens, and deep reds. The fruits have a natural sheen. Positioned on the left center, the plate is filled with grapes spilling over its edge, with peaches of different shades scattered around. The background and support surface are dark brown, contrasting with the colorful fruit.
Henri Fantin-Latour, Still Life with Peaches and Grapes, 1896, oil on canvas, Gift of Miriam and Eliezer Benbassat, 2025.11.6

Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

Henri Fantin-Latour · 1896 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2025.11.6

From a grassy embankment, we look across a placid body of water to a cluster of cream-white buildings on the far bank in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft and hazy look. Closest to us, dots of canary yellow, sky blue, and white suggest flowers growing on the verdant embankment. Closer to the water, two trees have ash-brown trunks and canopies like clouds of pale sage green. To our left of the trees, a light-skinned woman stands near the water with a bundle on her back. She wears a straw-yellow cap, a shin-length dress, and an apron. A second person wearing a yellow cap and a blue shirt sits facing away from us, to our right of the trees. Buildings and trees along the far bank are reflected in the pale blue water. The villa there is made up of several interconnected buildings with rectangular windows and shallow, gabled, charcoal-gray roofs. One more building is nestled into the trees that surround the complex, to our right. Painted with a few strokes of ocean blue, gray, or pale yellow, at least three people stand or walk along the far bank. The forest stretches across the horizon, which comes a third of the way up the canvas. A few small, puffy white clouds drift across the expanse of blue sky above. The artist signed the painting with black letters in the lower left corner, “Corot.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Ville-d'Avray, c. 1865, oil on canvas, Gift of Count Cecil Pecci-Blunt, 1955.9.1

Ville-d'Avray

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · c. 1865 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1955.9.1

This painting shows a grand, domed cathedral by a busy waterway. The dome and the surrounding white buildings are silhouetted against a blue sky with thin white and gray clouds. Gondolas and small boats drift across the water closer to us, with people dressed brightly in shades of red, yellow, brown, and gray. The water below the boats reflects the blue of the sky and the white of the buildings.
Francesco Guardi, Santa Maria della Salute, c. 1770, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926), 2015.19.29

Santa Maria della Salute

Francesco Guardi · c. 1770 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.29