Artists including Monet, Renoir and Caillebotte all painted still life subjects featuring food and flowers. Art historian Michelle Mishur discusses why these artists and others considered still life a modern subject for their own time and how their approaches responded to the great tradition of 17th-century Dutch still life.
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