Still life with peaches, raisins, melon and pomegranate all on a stone table in front of a drapery

Painted in 1695, this still life of fruit—peaches, raisins, melon, and pomegranate on a stone table with drapery—now in the Collection Lavalard Frères de Roye, shows Largillière's engagement with the traditional still-life genre alongside his primary practice as a portraitist. French fruit still lifes of the 1690s were strongly influenced by Dutch and Flemish precedents, and Largillière's Antwerp training gave him direct access to that tradition. Peaches, melon, and pomegranate were among the most texturally and chromatically complex fruits for a painter to depict, each requiring a different approach to surface and interior translucency. Still lifes by Largillière are rare compared to his portraits, making this a significant addition to the evidence of his versatility. The Lavalard collection, originally formed in the nineteenth century, held important French seventeenth and eighteenth-century works.

Fruit still life demanded skills quite different from portraiture: the delicate bloom on peach skin required a dry-brush technique over a smooth underpaint, while the melon's textured rind needed stippled or directional brushwork. Pomegranate presented the additional challenge of its complex interior—seeds, membrane, and the saturated red of the flesh—visible through a split skin.