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Object photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Image color corrected by Pat Cagney…
Still Life with Fruit and Wine
Object photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Image color corrected by Pat Cagney…
Object photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Image color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Still Life with Fruit and Wine

Artist Thomas Badger (American, 1792-1868)
Dateca. 1817
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsOverall, Frame: 22 x 26 3/4 in. (55.9 x 67.9 cm)
ClassificationsAmerican art
Credit LineBequest of Edward J. Brickhouse, by exchange, and Museum purchase
Object number93.49
Terms
  • Still life
  • Fruit
  • Wine
  • Red
  • Green
  • Black
  • Yellow
  • Brown
  • Still life
  • Boston
  • Unknown
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DescriptionThis is an oil on wood panel painting. On a table covered with a linen tablecloth, a wine glass and decanter are displayed as well as a cut-glass fruit dish on which is assembled a cornucopia of apples, grapes, pears, and melons. Other fruit is also arranged across the front of the table. This assemblage is set against a plain neoclassical background.

Label TextThomas Badger American, 1792—1868 Still Life with Fruit and Wine, ca. 1817 Oil on panel A cascading pile of fruit, seemingly just plucked from the vine and tree, alongside fine cut glass wine vessels serve as symbols of prosperity and abundance. Still life was a popular artistic genre in Early America, valued for its connections to the art of European old masters and its symbolic associations with the bounty of the new nation. Thomas Badger worked primarily as a portrait painter in Boston in the early eighteenth century and this painting is one of only three known still lifes the artist created. Bequest of Edward J. Brickhouse, by exchange, and Museum purchase 93.49
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