Still Life (Studies of Peaches)
Artist
Helen Searle
(American, 1830 - 1884)
CultureAmerican
Date1848
MediumOil on paper board
Dimensions5 3/8 × 6 1/4 in. (13.7 × 15.9 cm)
InscribedA photocopied paper label affixed to the back of the board reads: “HELEN R. SEARLE / This is to certify that this painting was painted / by Helen R. Searle, wife of James William Pattison. / [signed] Penelope Pattison Allen Chapman / Granddaughter of James William Pattison”
Credit LineMuseum purchase made possible by a grant from the Christiane and James Valone Charitable Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation in memory of Marynell Gordon
Object number2022.16
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 213
Provenancethe artist; to her estate, 1884; to her granddaughter, Penelope Pattison Allen Chapman, by descent; [Steven Straw, Newburyport, Massachusetts]; to [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1975–76]; to private collection, 1976 until the present, to CMA
