Melons, apples, pears, and other fruits, along with a glass vessel and chestnuts, are arranged along a tabletop covered by a white cloth in this horizontal still life painting. The left edge of the table is close to that edge of the canvas, and the table extends off the right edge. Starting at the left, the melon near the edge of the table has a forest-green rind with coral-colored flesh. Just behind it, to our right, the spherical glass vessel is about half filled with amber liquid. Next to the melon and in front of the vessel is a dark-skinned fig and a cluster of three red berries. At the…
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Still Life with Fruit and Carafe

painter Pensionante del Saraceni (French (?), active c. 1610/1620)

c. 1610/1620

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 50.4 x 71.6 cm (19 13/16 x 28 3/16 in.) ; framed: 71.1 x 92.1 x 5.4 cm (28 x 36 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
Italian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
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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