John F. Peto
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John Frederick Peto was an American trompe-l'œil painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe-l'œil artist William Harnett.
Fish House Door, 1905, Dallas Museum of Art
Letter Rack by Peto, 1907
Peto Studio Museum
Still Life with Mug, Pipe and Book (1899)
Still life
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A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural or human-made.
John F. Peto
…genre, but even his paintings were given the snub by critics as mere novelty and trickery. Both artists were masters of trompe-l'œil, a genre of still life that aims to deceive the viewer into mistaking painted objects for reality. When the catalogs of the two artists were posthumously analyzed, it was…
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid
Still life on a 2nd-century mosaic, with fish, poultry, dates and vegetables from the Vatican museum
Glass bowl of fruit and vases. Roman wall painting in Pompeii (around 70 AD), Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
Hans Memling (1430–1494), Vase of Flowers (1480), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. According to some scholars the Vase of Flowers is filled with religious symbolism.