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Basket of Plums
Anne Vallayer-Coster1769
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
During the later part of the 1700s, fruit still lifes were extremely popular, and a basket of plums was a common motif. In Vallayer's painting the details, especially the plums and the basket, emerge from deep shadows. The colors are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its sparkling highlights and reflections.
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- Title: Basket of Plums
- Creator: Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744–1818)
- Date Created: 1769
- Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: Baron Herzog, Budapest, Hungary, Axel Ryden, Stockholm, Sweden, Osborn Kling, Stockholm, Sweden, (Sale: H. Bukowski, Stockholm, Sweden, September 25-26, 1934, no. 323), Thorsten Laurin, Stockholm, Sweden, and his daughter Mrs. B. Stjernsward, Sakanor, Sweden, (Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1970, no. 4), [Old Masters Gallery, London, England], [H. Shickman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.47
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "M.elle Vallayer / 1769"
- Fun Fact: The artist painted a companion to this work—a plate of peaches and branch of cherries.
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: P - French 18th Century
- Accession Number: 1971.47
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