Still Life with Bowl of Peaches and Grapes

1818

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James Peale

James Peale

Still Life with Bowl of Peaches and Grapes

1818

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, Sight: 19 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (48.9 × 62.2 cm.) Framed: 29 3/8 × 34 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (74.6 × 87.6 × 11.4 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of William Bose Marye, Baltimore

Object Number 1948.14

Lush peaches fill a simple white porcelain bowl set upon a bare tabletop; peaches and small pears are arranged in front of the bowl. There are purple grapes in the left background, and a large cluster of pale green grapes fills the right foreground. The irregular shapes of the leaves interspersed among the pears and peaches provide a marked contrast to the smooth, rounded fruit surfaces. The strong light radiating from the left produces deep shadows and dramatic highlights, clearly reminiscent of Dutch still lifes.

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1948; William Bose Marye (1886–1979), Baltimore, MD by descent; William Nelson (1841-1929) and Elizabeth Mary Bose Gittings Marye (1853-1928), Baltimore, MD

Peale Museum, Baltimore, "Rendezvous for Taste," Feb. 24-Apr. 22, 1956, P. 29, no. 98 (as by Rubens Peale).

Wildenstein Gallery, New York, "The Object as Subject, Still Life Painting from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century," Apr. 4-May 3, 1975, n.p., no. 51.

United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., "200 Years of American Painting: 1776-1976", June 30-Dec. 12, 1976 (organized by BMA and circulated to Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, and Poland)

Baltimore Museum of Art, Sona Johnston, "The Art of Still Life from The Baltimore Museum of Art;" circulated to The Academy Art Museum, August 3 - October 6, 2007

Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 117-118, ill. p. 118.