Still Life of Herrings suspended on a Wall

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A characteristic work by an artist who painted many still-life compositions but was also known for his landscapes. The flamboyant technique which is a striking feature of this painting and his 'Still Life of white Azaleas' was much admired in Vollon's lifetime. These are both probably late works. The striking contrasts of dark paint and highlights with little colour derives from a fashion for seventeenth-century Spanish art in nineteenth-century France which was at its height in the 1860s.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Still Life of Herrings suspended on a Wall

Date

1860s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 47 x W 32 cm

Accession number

WA1937.36

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Florence Weldon (née Tebb), 1937

Work type

Painting

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