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A white-skinned fish, sliced open along its belly, lies across a porcelain plate next to a brass-colored vessel in this nearly square still-life painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. The objects are lit from our left, and the earth-brown background is in deep shadow. At the center of the composition, the fish’s head and tail flop off the white plate, which is painted with orange and blue flowers. Four smaller, silvery fish lie in two pairs on the brown, possibly wood tabletop. One pair is near the lower right corner of the canvas, and the other is to…

An English Cod

William Merritt Chase (American, 1849 - 1916)

1904 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1905)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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