Still Life: Basket of Peaches

Artist: Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774–1825)

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

13 3/4 × 19 5/8 in. (34.9 × 49.8 cm)

Credit Line

Estate of James W. Fosburgh, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935

Accession Number

1979.13.1

Culture
Period

19th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Rev. James Abercrombie (1758–1841), Philadelphia, about 1816; given to Francis Gurney Smith, Sr. (1784–1873), Philadelphia, 1841; by descent to Gurney Hamilton (née Gurney Thomas, formerly Gurney Thomas Sadtler, 1918–2009), West Chester, Penn., by 1944; sold to J.E. McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, by 1944 (consigned to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1944); sold to James Whitney Fosburgh (1910–1978), New York, 1946; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1979
Bibliography
  • American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 112–13, no. 48, ill.
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1988)
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Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical, still lifes

Subject

fruit

Signed

Signed lower right "Raphaelle Peale 1816"

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