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Henri Fantin-Latour
Grapes in a Basket and Apples, 1880
Fantin-Latour is perhaps best known for his mastery of the still-life genre. Here he precisely renders the grapes and apples, emphasizing their shapes and colors as well as the way light defines their forms. His realistic approach to this subject matter recalls the Roman writer Pliny's famous story in which the artist Zeuxis depicted grapes so realistically that birds tried to eat them. |