Fruit

c. 1860

Harriet Cany Peale

Associated Names
Harriet Cany Peale

Painter, American, 1800 - 1869

This painting shows a still life arrangement with a white-and-blue striped bowl filled with apples and grapes, surrounded by additional fruits, including a pear. The bowl and fruit rest on a flat brown surface. The color palette consists of warm tones of red, yellow, and pink from the apples, while green and dark purple hues come from the grapes and pear. A vine with large green leaves extends above and behind the arrangement, coming from the left. The wall in the background is dark brown.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Victor D. Spark, New York); purchased 15 June 1951 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1959

  • Loan Exhibition. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary, Wildenstein, New York, 28 January-7 March 1959, unnumbered cat., as James Peale.

1967

  • The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1967, no. 104, repro, as James Peale.

1978

  • The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April-16 July 1978, as James Peale.

  • The Object as Subject: Still Lifes at the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 December 1978-4 February 1979, as James Peale.

1996

  • The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 311, repro, as James Peale.

Wikidata ID

Q46628714

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