Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, and a Jewel Case

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Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, and a Jewel Case

c. 1870

Artist/maker unknown, American

Colorful still-life depictions of fruit and flowers were prized by mid-nineteenth-century Americans, who decorated their dining rooms with affordable prints of similar subjects made by firms such as Currier and Ives. These popular compositions also served as models for self-taught or informally trained painters, as may be the case with this image. The peculiar rendering of the grapes and the dense arrangement of fruit and flowers resembles the many still lifes produced for Currier and Ives by artists such as Frances Flora (Fanny) Palmer (1812-1876).

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Object Details

Title:

Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, and a Jewel Case

Date:

c. 1870

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, American

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

23 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (59.7 × 52.1 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of the estate of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1981

Accession Number:

1981-1-8

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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