This painting is a still life featuring several objects arranged in a line. On the far left is a red apple with its stem toward us. Next to it is a transparent glass goblet with a hint of golden liquid inside. To the right of the glass is a blue plate with a large yellow apple next to what look like dark red dates or raisins. Resting beside the plate is a thin brown twig with green leaves. Farthest to the right is a small round yellow cake with white frosting, decorated with a pink dot in the center of the frosting and four green ovals around it. The surface these objects rest on is light…
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Still Life with Apples, Sherry, and Tea Cake

Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774 - 1825)

1822

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 26.67 × 41.59 cm (10 1/2 × 16 3/8 in.) ; framed: 36.04 × 51.22 × 4.6 cm (14 3/16 × 20 3/16 × 1 13/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
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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