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In a warm and dark room, Courbet’s rich, ripe apples seem to glow as if in firelight. The heavy earthenware bowl lined with pale blue slip seems almost too small for the weight of the fruit piled into it. Among them is a single pomegranate, squeezed in at the base of the heap.In 1871 Courbet was jailed for his involvement in the Paris Commune, the radical government that ruled Paris for a few months that year. Allowed to paint but forbidden to have models pose for him, his sister Zoé brought him flowers and fruit, and he was able to explore still-life painting, a genre almost new to him.Courbet knew the still-life paintings of seventeenth-century Dutch artists in which rotting fruit and dying flowers were symbols of the fleeting nature of life.
Title
Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate
Date
1871-2
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 44.5 x W 61 cm
Accession number
NG5983
Acquisition method
Bought, 1951
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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