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StatsStill Life: Peaches, Apple, and Pear
Baroque
1825
25.0 x 31.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woodside probably received his training from Philadelphia sign painter Matthew Pratt or one of Pratt’s business partners. In 1805, Woodside opened his own studio in Philadelphia, advertising his services as an ornamental or sign painter. He aspired to less mundane genres, however, and tried his hand at emblematic and patriotic works, animal scenes, miniatures, and copies after English engravings. This work and its companion, "Still Life: Peaches and Grapes" (41.152.1), are among Woodside’s few known still lifes and represent his best efforts as a painter. His arrangement of the fruit in a spare setting bears the stylistic imprint of the Peale family, who established a still-life tradition in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century.
John A. Woodside (? – ?)
Discover John A. Woodside (1781-1852), a Philadelphia sign painter renowned for his meticulously detailed still life paintings of fruits and game. Influenced by Dutch Golden Age masters and the Peale family tradition, Woodside bridged the gap between decorative arts and fine art in 19th-century America.
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About this artwork
- Title: Still Life: Peaches, Apple, and Pear
- Artist: John A. Woodside
- Year: 1825
- Original dimensions: 25.0 x 31.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Movement: Baroque
- Creative period: Mature Period
- Corpus context: peale family tradition , ornamental aesthetic