Several pieces of fruit, a bunch of green grapes, a stem of raisins, and several types of nuts in their shells are piled on a putty-brown tabletop or ledge with rounded corners against a dark background in this horizontal still life painting. The food is brightly lit from the front, and we look slightly down onto the table. There are two round red apples and two pieces of small yellow fruit, perhaps quinces, flanking a golden yellow pear at the back center. The bunch of grapes drapes over the fruit to our right and the raisins lie between the apples. Thirteen walnuts, peanuts, almonds,…
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Still Life with Fruit and Nuts

Robert Seldon Duncanson (American, 1821 - 1872)

1848

Medium
oil on board
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 30.48 x 40.64 cm (12 x 16 in.) ; framed: 43.5 × 53.66 × 6.67 cm (17 1/8 × 21 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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