Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1858 - Still Life with Herring, Bread, and Cheese - fine art print

What does the curator team of the The Cleveland Museum of Art write about the work of art painted by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps? (© - The Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org)

This painting forms a pair with the Still Life with Pipe and Matches, shown nearby. Along with several other paintings, they decorated the dining room of the artist's home, each painting representing a different stage of a meal. In this composition the artist focused his attention on rendering textures, which are as varied as the objects themselves: the skin of the smoked herrings, whose highlights echo the silver of the goblet and the cover of the pitcher; the spongy surface of the bread; the velvety crust of the cheese; and finally the soft wood surface (pine?) that supports this still life.

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This modern art painting "Still Life with Herring, Bread, and Cheese" was made by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. The original creation was painted with the size: Unframed: 63 x 38 cm (24 13/16 x 14 15/16 in) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. "Signed lower left: dc Rev 1858; inscribed: quoe [sic] virtus et quanta sit / vivere parvo [How virtuous, and how great to live with simple things]" is the masterpiece's inscription. It is in the the art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. This work of art, which is part of the public domain is provided with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Also, the work of art has the creditline: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin. Besides this, the alignment is in portrait format and has an aspect ratio of 9 : 16, which implies that the length is 45% shorter than the width. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a male painter, whose art style can mainly be assigned to Romanticism. The European painter lived for a total of 57 years - born in 1803 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased in 1860 in Fontainebleau, Ile-de-France, France.

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