The grapes and peaches sit half-lit against the dark, caught at the moment just before they would have to be eaten. Found in Montpellier, an 18th century oil that came out of a grand bastide near Aix-en-Provence. Dutch and Flemish painters first set their fruit against near-black grounds so the colors would hold under candlelight, a habit that carried into French still life and never quite left. Sylvie leans it on the sideboard with a pair of candles beside it, and after dark the fruit is the only thing in the room that still seems lit.
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