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"did_you_know": "The artist painted a companion to this work\u2014a plate of peaches and branch of cherries.",
"description": "During the later part of the 1700s, fruit still lifes were extremely popular, and a basket of plums was a common motif. In Vallayer's painting the details, especially the plums and the basket, emerge from deep shadows. The colors are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its sparkling highlights and reflections.",
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"citation": "Luna, Juan J. \"Mele\u0301ndez and the Development of Spanish and European Still Life Painting in the Eighteenth Century.\" In Mele\u0301ndez: Still Lifes. Peter Cherry, and Juan J. Luna, 44-79. [Dublin]: National Gallery of Ireland, 2004.",
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