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John Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American trompe-l'œil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe-l'œil artist William Harnett.
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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... In the Library is a 1894–1900 oil painting on canvas by John F. Peto. [1] References This ...
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Overall, Harnett's work is most comparable to that of the slightly younger John F. Peto. The two artists knew each other, and a comparison can be made between two paintings featuring violins. Harnett's Music and Good Luck from 1888 shows the violin hanging upright on a door with ornate hinges and with a slightly torn piece of sheet music behind ...
Harnett inspired many followers, the best known being John F. Peto, but few, if any, had Chalfant's technical finesse. Often, Chalfant's compositions closely follow prototypes by Harnett, but Chalfant usually simplifies, eliminating secondary objects and details. [4] An example is his Violin and Bow (1889) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET ...
A History of American Marine Painting (Peabody Museum of Salem, 1968) Robert Salmon, Painter of Ship & Shore (Peabody Museum of Salem, 1971) Winslow Homer (Praeger Publishers, 1972) Important Information inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America (National Gallery of Art, 1983)
He is considered one of the three major figures—together with William Harnett and John F. Peto—practicing this form of still life painting in the United States in the last quarter of the 19th century. [1] A Bachelor's Drawer by John Haberle, 1890–1894, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 91.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York