Still Life: Flowers and Fruit

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Artist: Severin Roesen
Date: 1850–55
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 50 3/8 in. (101.6 x 128 cm)
Origin: American
Department: The American Wing
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Press Black · Black family · #18150F · 35%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #554121 · 17%

Oiled Oak · Brown family · #7D5D36 · 13%

Press Black · Black family · #11110B · 11%

Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #2E2818 · 7%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #CAA38A · 7%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #3A3340 · 3%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #4B2120 · 2%

Charred Umber · Black family · #2A1A12 · 2%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #791A11 · 2%

Raw Ochre Field · Yellow family · #D2921C · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #10140D · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #B24017 · <1%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #471A07 · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #B9A9B6 · <1%

Iron Gall Black · Black family · #16211D · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #020200 · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #859383 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Purchase, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, by exchange, Fosburgh Fund Inc. and Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf II Gifts, and Henry G. Keasbey Bequest, 1967

9 tags

Still Life Both · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the work as a still life, and the image shows a deliberately arranged grouping of flowers, fruit, a vase, basket, and eggs.
Flora Both · 99%

Flowers, leaves, stems, buds, and flowering branches dominate the composition; Flowers is also listed among the catalog subjects.
Food Both · 99%

Fruit is an explicit catalog subject, and the image visibly presents grapes, berries, pineapple, and numerous other fruits throughout the foreground and right side.

Dense Composition Visual · 98%

Flowers, foliage, fruit, vessels, basket, and nest overlap across most of the horizontal canvas, creating a tightly packed arrangement.
Dark Colors Visual · 95%

A nearly black and deep brown background and shadowed lower area occupy much of the surrounding field and contrast with the illuminated objects.
Highly Detailed Visual · 96%

Petals, leaves, stems, fruit surfaces, the woven basket, and the nest are rendered with sustained attention to small structural and surface details.

Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the work as a painting in oil on canvas.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1850–55, placing it in the nineteenth century.

American Art Metadata · 97%

The catalog gives the place of origin as American and identifies Roesen as American, born in Prussia.

Severin Roesen. Still Life: Flowers and Fruit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.