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FRUIT AND STILL LIFE

Creator(s): Theude Gronland (Painter)

Currently in storage


About this object

Painting shows a table top covered with a cloth with a flowered design. On top of this is a lace cloth under a round brass tray. On the tray is a slice of melon with seeds, a whole peach, half of a peach and a bunch of white grapes. Behind the tray is another slice of melon on the right. Behind it is a whole melon, on which sits a black beetle, a pineapple, a big yellow leaf and bunches of grapes. An open persimmon is to the left. To the right is a drapery which cuts triagonally across the open window space behind the arrangement. There is a small bird on a twig in front of the drapery.

Object name:
FRUIT AND STILL LIFE
Made from:
Oil on canvas
Made in:
GERMANY
Date made:
1857
Size:
56.5 × 80.6 cm (22 1/4 × 31 3/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
51.184
Class:
PAINTING
Signature marks:
SIGNATURE; DATE Th. Gronland 1857 in red lower right
Credit line:
Gift of General Foods, 1978