This painting shows a shallow wooden container filled with bright cherries in different shades of red on a brown surface. Some cherries have spilled in front of the basket; they are reflected in the polished brown surface beneath them. The cherries have bright green stems that crisscross and overlap with one another. The wall in the background is dark yellow-green color.
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Red Cherries

painter Robert Spear Dunning (American, 1829 - 1905)

1866

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 16.51 × 22.86 cm (6 1/2 × 9 in.) ; framed: 24.13 × 30.8 × 6.35 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
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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