Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
1824
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 50.2 × 61.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137025
The fruit and flowers in this painting symbolize nature's riches. In the center of the arrangement is a melon, which has been opened and will soon decay, a reminder of the fleeting nature of life. Cornelius de Beet's paintings reward careful looking, offering up delightful surprises such as the butterfly in this work. The artist was born and studied in Amsterdam, and this painting evokes his home…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Registry history
- 1824 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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