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| Keywords: 1865, Peale, Rubens, Still Life with Watermelon.jpg en Rubens Peale American 1784 “1865 Still Life with Watermelon 1865 Oil on canvas 48 3 x 69 9 cm 19 x 27 1/2 in frame 66 5 × 87 × 8 5 cm 26 3/16 × 34 1/4 × 3 3/8 in Gift in honor of Professor John Wilmerding from his friends and former students and the Kathleen C Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art 2007-20 Among American painter Charles Willson Peale ™s many artistic children Rubens Peale was a late bloomer His poor eyesight meant he did not receive his father ™s instruction in painting but instead was groomed to manage Peale ™s Museum the public display of art and natural history Charles Willson began to develop during Rubens ™s youth It was not until the age of seventy-one that Peale was taught to paint … ” …by his daughter Mary Still Life with Watermelon completed during Rubens ™s eighty-first year offers eloquent testimony that he ended his brief career at the peak of his powers A finely balanced completely assured example of the artist ™s numerically modest oeuvre the painting partakes of the quiet simplicity of his brother Raphaelle ™s frieze-like Neoclassical compositions executed decades earlier and relates as well to his uncle James Peale ™s horizontal tabletop arrangements of indirectly illuminated fruit including the pictorial device of a piece of fruit shown overhanging the table ™s edge relieving its insistent planarity 1865 Princeton University Art Museum Rubens Peale other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard American art in the Princeton University Art Museum American paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Still life paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Rubens Peale 19th-century still life paintings of fruits Taken with Phase One P45 | ||||
