Artist:
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Severin Roesen
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Title:
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Abundant Fruit
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Date:
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1858
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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39 x 49 in. (99.06 x 124.46 cm) (sight)
55 7/16 x 66 1/2 in. (140.81 x 168.91 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Don and Diana Lee Lucker
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Location:
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Gallery 322
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Roesen, a German immigrant, is considered to be among the most accomplished of the nineteenth-century American still-life painters. Originally trained as a porcelain painter, he arrived in America around 1848 and worked in New York and Philadelphia before settling in Williamsport, Pennsylvania about 1860, where he remained until his death until 1871. What is most remarkable is the sheer size of this painting; only six works of this scale attributable to Roesen are recorded today. A stamp of an art-supply shop on the reverse indicates that the painting dates prior to 1858, when Roesen left New York for Philadelphia.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Roesen, Severin
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American, 1815 - 1872
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature
LRC, in green (as grapevine): [S Roesen]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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still life with grapes of various colors and grapevines and leaves, melon, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, plums, oranges, apples, lemon; goblet with water with lemon at L; basket at center bottom, white pedestal plate at top left
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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2005.96
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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