Still life with peaches and grapes

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Work Overview

Still life with peaches and grapes
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date: 1881
Style: Impressionism
Period: Rejection of Impressionism
Genre: still life
21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65.1 cm)


Renoir spent part of the summer of 1881 at the country home of his patron Paul Berard in the small Normandy village of Wargemont. During his stay, Renoir painted two similar still lifes in contrasting color harmonies, showing the family’s faïence jardinière piled high with peaches. Berard purchased the present work for himself; the other version (61.101.12) was featured in the seventh Impressionist exhibition the following year.