Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825)
Still Life of Fruit, Pitcher, and Pretzel, 1810
Oil on wood panel, 11 3/4 x 13 in.
Inscribed (by another hand, on the back): Son of / Charles Willson Peale; (on old label attached to the back): Painted by Raphael [sic] Peale / Year 1810 / Son of Charles Willson Peale; (faintly, on back upper right corner): Raphael [sic] Peale /Year 1810
Provenance: the artist; to his second son, Edmund Peale; to his daughter, Louisa Peale Grimmer; to her son, Charles Alfred Grimmer, Chattanooga, Tennessee; to his cousin, Grace Peale Martin, Santa Monica, California; to her niece, Adah Peale Stombaugh, until 1987; to private collection; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, until 2025
Recorded: Maria O’Donovan, ed., “Philadelphia Queensware,” in Northeast Historical Archaeology 46 (2017), cover illus. in color; Rebecca L. White, “Finding Queensware in Art,” in River Chronicles: The Journal of Philadelphia Waterfront Heritage and Archaeology 3 (2018), pp. 60 illus. in color, 61
Exhibited: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1988-89, Variations on a Theme: Still Life Painting in America, no. 43; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1991, Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation, 1810-1840, p. 89 no. 63a illus. in color; The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999, Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium, p. 114 pl. 46, p.115 illus. in color; Debra Force Fine Art, New York, 2000, Philadelphia: A Crossroads for American Art, 1750-2000, n.p. n.n illus. in color