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Still Life: Balsam Apple and Vegetables, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Peale, James 1749-1831  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 39.52
Date:
Ca. 1820s
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum, Vol. I, 1965, pg. 67.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 137.
Summary:
An arrangement of fruits and vegetables on a table, from left to right: okra, blue-green cabbage, crinkly Savoy cabbage, Hubbard squash, eggplant, balsam apple, tomatoes, and purple-red cabbage. The balsam apple is a kind of gourd.
Topic:
Still Life--Fruit  Search this
Still Life--Vegetable  Search this
Control number:
IAP 36120051
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_41840