This painting shows various pieces of fruit arranged in a thin white bowl, including apples, peaches, green and purple grapes, cherries, pears, and plums. Some of the fruit is overflowing from the bowl, and rests on the white surface below, surrounding the bowl. Many of the pieces of fruit have thin stems attached to them, and some have thick green leaves. Behind the fruit, the background is dark brown, and there is a tan arched border around the painting.
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Fruit Still Life

painter Robert Seldon Duncanson (American, 1821 - 1872)

c. 1849

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 34.29 × 48.26 cm (13 1/2 × 19 in.) ; framed: 50.8 × 66.04 cm (20 × 26 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift from the Reserve for Purchase of Works of Art, 1968)
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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