This painting shows a bundle of asparagus tied with a brown string, with two red tomatoes in front of it and a green melon in the background. The asparagus bundle is in the center, the dark green spears pointing to the upper right corner and the lighter, jagged ends pointing towards the bottom left. The shiny red tomatoes are in front, on the lower right, and the melon is behind the asparagus on the left, with vertical stripes of light and dark green and a short vine curling from the top. To the right of the vegetables is a thin curling vine with wide leaves. The objects are placed on a gray…
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Asparagus, Tomatoes, and a Squash

painter Paul Lacroix (American, 1827 - 1869)

1865

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 34.29 × 41.28 cm (13 1/2 × 16 1/4 in.) ; framed: 47.63 × 57.79 × 10.16 cm (18 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 4 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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