# Still Life with Cantaloupe

- By: William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898)
- Date: c. 1880
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.20)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1969.20/1969.20_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.