# Ripening Pears

- By: Joseph Decker (American, 1853 - 1924)
- Date: c. 1884/1885
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 30.5 x 61 cm (12 x 24 in.) ; framed: 53.34 x 83.19 x 6.99 cm (21 x 32 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift of Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.129433.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/42dff6c0-2a30-4a89-b7d5-55dd1c38ce6c/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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