Title

Still Life with Melons, 1865. Creator: Alexandre Couder.

Caption

Still Life with Melons, 1865. Couder trained at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and specialized in still lifes. Two of his paintings were purchased by Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, emperor of France. William T. Walters collected two still lifes in watercolour by the artist, who exhibited reguarly at the Salon in Paris.

Date

1865

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B16_358

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

52,9Mb (2,5Mb) / 12,4in x 16,5in / 3726 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature Europe tree season still life food summer fruit plant plants arts country branches French France art continent ripe museum European color foliage abundance ripeness grapes grape location century melon melons concept plenty peach peaches Colour 19th century nineteenth century trees still life Walters Art Museum Heritage Art 19th-century watercolor and opaque watercolor over traces of graphite on cream moderately thick slightly textured wove paper Alexandre Couder Couder Alexandre