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Peto\u2019s still lifes, is replete with nostalgia. Strewn along a shallow shelf above a doorframe is an array of old, well-worn objects: candleholders with wax candles nearly used up, rusty oil lamps, and torn books. These discarded commonplace objects allude to older ways of life and fading memories. Peto specialized in trompe l\u2019oeil (fools the eye) pictures; yet his soft-edged style is suggestive of the artist\u2019s hand rather than the heightened illusionism employed by other trompe l\u2019oeil painters such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/10930\">William Harnett<\/a>. 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