Still Life: Vase of Peonies

ca. 1925

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 766

In 1925 Tarbell retired to his summer home in New Hampshire, where he painted a number of still lifes of the pink and white peonies that grew in his garden. This is the most expressive of those late works, possibly inspired by the ongoing popularity of floral paintings by French artists such as Edouard Manet and Henri Fantin-Latour. Tarbell initially included a Chinese figurine on the far right of this composition—likely to underscore the peony’s association with East Asian culture—but then loosely brushed a blossom over it, a change that remains visible.

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Title: Still Life: Vase of Peonies
Artist: Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862–1938)
Date: ca. 1925
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 21 3/16 in. (63.8 x 53.8 cm)
Framed: 32 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 3 3/8in. (81.9 x 72.4 x 8.6cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979
Object Number: 1979.490.1
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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