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Fruit Still Life
Robert S. Duncansonc. 1849
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Fruit Still Life
- Creator: Robert Seldon Duncanson
- Date Created: c. 1849
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 34.29 × 48.26 cm (13 1/2 × 19 in.) framed: 50.8 × 66.04 cm (20 × 26 in.)
- Provenance: Dr. George C. Mendenhall, Cincinnati, after 1877; to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Mendenhall; to her daughter, Mrs. George P. Stimson; to her niece, Mrs. W.E. Stilwell, Jr.;[1] (Kennedy Galleries, New York), by 1962; purchased 30 October 1968 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The Corcoran's accession record sheet, in NGA curatorial files, records that Dr. Mendenhall "received [the painting] as bill from a patient." This was meant to be recorded as "received [the painting] _from a patient in payment of a bill_." See: "Important American Still Life and Portrait Paintings," _The Kennedy Quarterly_ 3, no. 3 (December 1962): 117. Dr. Mendenhall was a Cincinnati physician.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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