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DiaporamaStill Life: Fruit
1855
91.0 x 127.0 cm
Bubbling Champagne and over a dozen varieties of fresh fruit are featured in this visual spectacle. Nineteenth-century improvements in cultivation and shipping practices enabled the extravagant assortment, which includes a tropical pineapple and heavily seeded melons that allude to the nation’s future bounty. A German immigrant, Roesen fled the revolutions of 1848 for the promises of America. He exhibited in New York in the 1850s, sending eleven paintings to the American Art-Union’s Free Gallery exhibitions between 1848 and 1852. In 1863 he settled in Pennsylvania, where his patrons included lumber industry moguls who relished the perceived limitlessness of American resources.
Severin Roesen (1815 – 1872)
Severin Roesen (1815-1872) was a major American still life painter known for his lush fruit & flower compositions. Explore his detailed 19th-century works, inspired by Dutch masters, and discover the story of this German immigrant artist.
About this artwork
- Title: Still Life: Fruit
- Artist: Severin Roesen
- Year: 1855
- Original dimensions: 91.0 x 127.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color hue: Green to Violet Spectrum
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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