April 17, 2024
John F. Peto Important Early American Realist Still Life Oil
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Double your traffic. This oil on canvas by John Frederick Peto depicts musical instruments and varied artifacts in repose.The size is 22in X 19in Condition is good no restorations Frame is original Painting is signed lower rightJohn Frederick Peto is recognized by the art world as an American master of the trompe l'oeil or "fool the eye" school of still-life painting. He was born in Philadelphia in 1854, went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1877 and exhibited there that same year. Peto painted in semi-seclusion and obscurity there for the remainder of his life. He died in Island Heights in 1907. Peto was almost completely forgotten until 1949, when Alfred Frankenstein published an article in which he identified nineteen paintings from major private collections and museums that had been attributed to Harnett but had really been painted by Peto. With the advent of further interest and research on American still life painting, Peto gradually emerged as a distinct artistic personality whose work could be differentiated from Harnett's by its looser brushwork, warm tonality, and aura of subtle melancholy created by his tendency to represent objects deteriorated by age.PETO'S WORK John F. Peto's early work was greatly influenced by the tradition of still life painting established in Philadelphia at the beginning of the nineteenth
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