{"data":{"id":120154,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/120154","is_boosted":true,"title":"Still Life\u2014Strawberries, Nuts, &c.","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBwAFAPUAABQTEhETFR8aEhkYFxoYFhsZGBwaGR0bGh4cGx8dHDcdFSskGz4kETYrGjYsHDksGVUqF0w+KUo9LUw\/L2ZQBE5ALExCLVREOFBKPlpOPV1QOV1SPXRZJFZQRFtUQ1tURGpfRmxkU3NqVQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAHAAUAAAYhwAMiQRgYFgEFpAAQODoXBgUjeoQ+E44k09BsQB5LpBIEADs=","width":5617,"height":4024,"alt_text":"Still life painting of strawberries, nuts, lemon, and porcelain vessels."},"main_reference_number":"1991.100","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1822,"date_end":1822,"date_display":"1822","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774\u20131825)","place_of_origin":"Philadelphia","description":"

A member of a prominent artistic family from Maryland and Pennsylvania, Raphaelle Peale was one of the first painters in the United States to specialize in still life. In this precisely arranged composition, he meticulously rendered the various surfaces and forms of fruits, nuts, and tableware. Influenced by 17th-century Dutch still lifes, Peale featured imported material goods, such as Chinese porcelain made for the American market, a luxury item symbolizing the increasing power and prosperity of the new nation. The large glass urn may hold strawberries grown out of season in greenhouses, called hothouses, an experiment undertaken at the family\u2019s farm outside of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","short_description":"During Raphaelle Peale\u2019s time, still lifes were relegated to the bottom of the hierarchy of painting subjects. Peale, however, ignored their low status and is now acknowledged as America\u2019s first professional still-life painter and leading practitioner. In this particularly fine example, the rhythmic balance of fruit, nuts, and Chinese-export porcelain is enlivened by the diagonal branch of grapes becoming raisins and an orange leaf.","dimensions":"41.1 \u00d7 57.8 cm (16 3\/16 \u00d7 22 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":57,"height":41,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on wood panel","inscriptions":"Signed recto, lower right, on table edge, in black paint: \"Raphaelle Peale Pinsct 1822\"","credit_line":"Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Dorothy C. Miller and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., eds., American Realists and Magic Realists<\/em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1943), 9, 63, cat. 13 (ill.).\n\nWolfgang Born, Still\u2013Life Painting in America<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1947), 13\u201314, fig. 23 (ill.).\n\nCharles Coleman Sellers, Raphaelle Peale, 1774\u20131825: Still Lifes and Portraits<\/em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Center, 1959), cat. 4.\n\nAlfred Frankenstein, The Reality of Appearance, The Trompe L\u2019Oeil Tradition in American Painting<\/em> (New York Graphic Society, 1970), 36\u201337, cat. 7 (ill.).\n\nWilliam H. Gerdts and Russell E. Burke, American Still\u2013Life Painting<\/em> (Praeger Publishers, 1971), 31.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Three Centuries of American Art<\/em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), 255, cat. 213 (ill.), as Still Life with Strawberries<\/em>.\n\nWilliam H. Gerdts, Painters of The Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still-Life, 1801-1939<\/em> (University of Missouri Press, 1981), 59\u201360, no cat. no., fig. 2.9 (ill.), as Still Life with Wild Strawberries<\/em>.\n\nBeatrice B. Garvan, Federal Philadelphia, 1785\u20131825, The Athens of the Western World<\/em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987), 82, cat. 230, fig. 50 (ill.).\n\nTom Armstrong, \u201cThe New Field\u2013McCormick Galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Magazine Antiques<\/em> 134, no. 4 (Oct., 1988): 822\u2013834, pl. 8 (ill.).\n\nNicolai Cikovsky, Jr., et al., Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes<\/em>, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1988), 53, fig. 41 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990\u201391<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), 1, fig. 1 (ill.).\n\n\u201cPrincipales acquisitions des mus\u00e9es en 1991,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts<\/em>, no. 1478 (Mar., 1992): 71, fig. 243 (ill.).\n\nLillian B. Miller, \u201cFather and Son: The Relationship of Charles Willson Peale and Raphaelle Peale,\u201d American Art Journal<\/em> 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1993), 4\u201361 (ill.).\n\nAnnie V. F. Storr, \u201cRaphaelle Peale\u2019s Strawberries, Nuts & c: A Riddle of Enlightened Science,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies<\/em> 21, no. 1 (1995): 24, 35 (ill.), https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4102810<\/a>.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 137\u20138 (ill.).\n\nJudith A. Barter, \"True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still\u2013Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America,\" Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies<\/em> 31, no. 1 (2005): 34\u201335, fig. 2 (ill.), https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4104472<\/a>.\n\nJudith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 64\u201366, 225, cat. 54, fig. 8 (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017) 44 (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 50 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Realists and Magic Realists<\/em>, Feb. 10\u2013Mar. 21, 1943, cat. 13; Buffalo, Albright Gallery, Apr. 5\u2013May 5, 1943; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 1\u201330, 1943; San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 23\u2013Sept. 19, 1943; Art Gallery of Toronto, Nov. 12\u2013Dec. 19, 1943; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 1\u201329, 1944.\n\nMilwaukee Art Center, Raphaelle Peale, Still Lifes and Portraits<\/em>, Jan. 15\u2013Feb. 15, 1959, cat. 4, as Still Life<\/em>; New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Mar. 2\u201331, 1959.\n\nWinston\u2013Salem, NC, Public Library, A Rationale for Modern Art<\/em>, Oct. 1\u201321, 1959, cat. 14; MO, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Nov. 2\u201322, 1959; New York, Time Inc., Dec. 7\u201318, 1959; Mansfield, OH, Kingwood Center, Jan. 3\u201324, 1960; MI, Midland Art Association, Feb. 5\u201325, 1960; Miami Beach Art Center, Mar. 10\u201331, 1960; Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Apr. 12\u2013May 3, 1960; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Museum, May 15\u2013June 6, 1960; San Francisco Museum of Art, June 16\u2013July 17, 1960; Norwich, CT, Slater Memorial Museum, Oct. 10\u201330, 1960, as Still Life with Strawberries<\/em> (organized by the American Federation of Arts).\n\nNew Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, American Art from Alumni Collections<\/em>, Apr. 25\u2013June 16, 1968, cat. 79, as Still Life with Strawberries<\/em>.\n\nNew York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 18th and 19th Century American Art from Private Collections<\/em>, June 27\u2013Sept. 11, 1972, cat. 49, as Bowl of Strawberries<\/em>.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Three Centuries of American Art<\/em>, Apr. 11\u2013Oct. 10, 1976, cat. 213 (as Still Life with Strawberries<\/em>).\n\nTulsa, OK, Philbrook Art Center, Painters of the Humble Truth: American Still Life Painting<\/em>, Sept. 27\u2013Nov. 1, 1981, no. 111, no cat. no., as Still Life with Wild Strawberries<\/em>; CA, Oakland Museum, Dec. 8, 1981\u2013Jan. 24, 1982; MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mar. 2\u2013Apr. 25, 1982; New York, National Academy of Design, May 18\u2013July 4, 1982.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Federal Philadelphia 1783\u20131825: The Athens of the Western World<\/em>, June 5\u2013Sept. 20, 1987.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine<\/em><\/a>, Nov. 10, 2013\u2013Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 54; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22\u2013May 18, 2014.","provenance_text":"Mr. Feldman, Philadelphia, by 1940. 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