Raphaelle Peale / Still Life with Cake / 1818

Raphaelle Peale
Still Life with Cake
1818
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Creator Name: Peale, Raphaelle
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1774-1825
Creator Name-CRT: Raphaelle Peale
Title: Still Life with Cake
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1818
Creation End Date: 1818
Creation Date: 1818
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on wood
Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (27.3 x 38.7 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 59.166
Credit Line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1959
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

This typical still life by Raphaelle Peale, the son of Charles Willson Peale, may have been the picture exhibited in 1819 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as 'Still Life-Wine, Cakes, Grapes, &c.' A similar picture dating from the same year is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Peale's tightly grouped still lifes are often permeated with a delicate melancholy akin to that which characterized the life of the artist; he was an alcoholic who suffered the effects of arsenic and mercury poisoning caused by his work as a taxidermist in his father's museum. His spare, essential style may have been influenced by the Spanish still lifes he studied in Mexico and by the works of Juan Sanchez Cotan, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1818.

AMICA ID: MMA_.59.166
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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