Still Life with Peaches and Pears — Renoir, 1881, Art Postcard

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted Still Life with Peaches and Pears in 1881, the year he traveled in Italy and looked again at Renaissance fruit and cloth. Here a porcelain vase holds peaches and pears on a stretch of white linen, set against a patterned tapestry that turns the back of the picture into decoration. As a postcard, the image belongs above a kitchen shelf, behind a fruit bowl, or in the hand of a friend who likes their still life ripe rather than austere. Browse the full Renoir postcard collection.