Still Life with Bread and Onions

Image credit: The Bowes Museum

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A terracotta jug, bread and onions are arranged on a table and seen from a higher viewpoint and against a neutral dark ground. A fine etcher and still-life painter, Constantin studied under Picot and Thomas Couture, exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1848. In this picture, the red of the radishes and wine and the green of the leaves contrast with the browns used for the onions, the bread, the jug and the bowl. Still life became a genre of its own in the nineteenth century, when it stopped being considered as less 'valuable' than other genres such as landscape or portrait painting.

The Bowes Museum

Barnard Castle

Title

Still Life with Bread and Onions

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 35.6 x W 51.9 cm

Accession number

B.M.507

Acquisition method

bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Work type

Painting

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The Bowes Museum

Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8NP England

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