John F. Peto, 1887 - The Old Cremona - fine art print

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The modern art artpiece called The Old Cremona was made by John F. Peto in 1887. The beyond 130 year-old original was made with the size: 16 x 12 in (40,6 x 30,5 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. Nowadays, the artpiece is included in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939 (licensed - public domain). Besides, the work of art has the creditline: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939. Moreover, alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width.

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Like many works by Peto, this canvas bears the false signature of his better-known contemporary William Michael Harnett. In 1886 Harnett had painted a successful trompe-l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) picture called "The Old Violin" (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), which was reproduced in a chromolithograph the following year. Peto may have known the original or the print. Although he borrowed Harnett’s composition, he made something quite different of it. By flattening forms and disregarding modeling, he created a decorative pattern with a textural effect that is evocative rather than purely illusionistic.