Franz Xaver Andreas Petter (1791–1866) was one of Vienna’s great masters of the Biedermeier still life, an era that prized intimacy, clarity, and the refinement of everyday beauty. His paintings, celebrated among the Viennese bourgeoisie, transformed fruit, flowers, and foliage into symbols of prosperity, pleasure, and the fleeting nature of life. In this composition, peaches, grapes, blackberries, and citrus are rendered with luminous realism, accompanied by delicate blossoms and a bird—nature assembled as both feast and philosophy.