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RAPHAELLE PEALE. Still Life with Cake

Still Life with Cake. Artist: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825). Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (27.3 x 38.7 cm). Date: 1818.
This typical still life by Raphaelle Peale, the son of Charles Willson Peale, may have been the picture exhibited in 1819 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as "Still Life--Wine, Cakes, Grapes, &c." A similar picture dating from the same year is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Peale's tightly grouped still lifes are often permeated with a delicate melancholy akin to that which characterized the life of the artist; he was an alcoholic who suffered the effects of arsenic and mercury poisoning caused by his work as a taxidermist in his father's museum. His spare, essential style may have been influenced by the Spanish still lifes he studied in Mexico and by the works of Juan Sanchez Cotan, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1818.

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Author: RAPHAELLE PEALE (1774-1825)

Title: Still Life with Cake

Caption: Still Life with Cake. Artist: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825). Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (27.3 x 38.7 cm). Date: 1818. This typical still life by Raphaelle Peale, the son of Charles Willson Peale, may have been the picture exhibited in 1819 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as "Still Life--Wine, Cakes, Grapes, &c." A similar picture dating from the same year is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Peale's tightly grouped still lifes are often permeated with a delicate melancholy akin to that which characterized the life of the artist; he was an alcoholic who suffered the effects of arsenic and mercury poisoning caused by his work as a taxidermist in his father's museum. His spare, essential style may have been influenced by the Spanish still lifes he studied in Mexico and by the works of Juan Sanchez Cotan, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1818.

Technique/material: OIL ON WOOD

Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit: Album

Image size: 4192 × 2950 px | 35.4 MB

Print size: 35.5 × 25.0 cm | 1650.4 × 1161.4 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: AMERICAN PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • OIL ON WOOD • OIL PAINTINGS • PAINTINGS • RAPHAELLE PEALE