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Still Life with Cantaloupe
William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898)
c. 1880
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
William Mason Brown launched his career as a portrait and landscape painter, but turned to still life subjects during the 1860s, which brought him success and renown. The various objects in this example are rendered in meticulous detail, capturing a range of textures from the soft fuzz of peach skin through the coarse webbing of cantaloupe rind.
