Antique Fruit Still Life Oil Painting, Gilt Frame, Late 1800s
Antique Fruit Still Life Oil Painting, Gilt Frame, Late 1800s
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Green and blue grapes spill across a grey marble ledge in front of a red velvet drape, with plums, raspberries, red berries and an apple crowded in beside them. The grapes get a few quick, glassy highlights that make them read as wet, and a dried vine leaf curls against the drape at the back. It is the dark, ledge-and-drape arrangement 19th century fruit painters returned to again and again, here seen through a round opening in a heavy gilt frame.
The painting has an overall cracked surface, an age craquelure that runs across the paint and is most visible in the lighter passages and the drape. The surface carries a glossy varnish. Some of the dark passages along the lower edge of the ledge look rubbed and slightly dusty to the eye. I have not examined the painting under UV light, so I can't tell you whether that is wear or old retouching, and I am not ruling retouching out anywhere on the surface.
The canvas has been relined. The relining has stabilized the canvas against further age-related movement, and it also means the back of the original canvas, along with any labels, stamps or inscriptions it once carried, can't be seen. The backing is modern brown paper and tape, and the cord and screw eyes are modern hanging hardware.
The frame shows its age. There are cracks in the gesso at several points, rubbed gilding on the high points, and fine gilt craquelure throughout. A section of the ornament has broken away at the upper left corner, which changes the outline of the frame there. The broken section is still with the painting and is included in the sale. Nothing else appears loose.
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