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Fruit Still Life
Fruit Still Life
Artist (1815 - 1871)

Fruit Still Life

Date1855-1865
DimensionsSight: 29 7/8 × 24 1/16 in. (75.9 × 61.1 cm)
Object numberN0097.1976
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Preston Bassett
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextRoesen's large scale and colorful paintings made still lifes popular in America. His work is particularly noted for its profusion of objects. A prolific painter, Roesen is more celebrated now than during his somewhat mysterious lifetime. The historical records show Roesen came from Germany where he was probably trained as a decorative porcelain painter. He settled in New York City, then moved to Philadelphia, Huntington, Pennsylvania, and finally Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Still lifes of fruit were often hung in dining rooms in the 19th century as a symbol of bounty and a whet to the appetite.
BibliographyKatharine Morrison McClinton, “The Dining Room Picture,” in Spinning Wheel (April 1978), pg. 23-26.

Alan McNairn, “American Paintings in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,” in Antiques (November, 1980), p. 1014.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vol. 2 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), pg. 634-635.
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