M. François-Aubert
Roses and Cherries on a Garden Table
Oil on canvas

Signed lower right M. FRANÇOIS-AUBERT in capitals. 21 ½ x 18 inches (55 x 46 cm), the frame 27 ¼ x 23 ¾ inches (69 x 60 cm). Wide gilt frame. Unlined, stable and free of losses, the tacking margin loose at the lower edge.

The table is not white. Look at the cloth in the lower right and it is green, the same green as the hedge behind, reflected up into the folds.

Roses stand in a plain glass jar on a round table set out of doors, pink, cream and one full yellow head at the center, against a dense hedge of many greens. A shallow dish of cherries sits on the cloth in front with their stalks and leaves still attached, and a few have spilled beside it. The paint is thick in the flowers, each petal a separate loaded stroke, and thinner in the hedge, scrubbed in and left. The glass of the jar is given in three touches, a vertical highlight, a grey edge and the stems seen through it.