Still Life with Fruit

Description Lying on the ground are two oranges, one of which is opened, some raspberries and a bunch of Tokay grapes still attached to a vine branch. Similar in composition is "Flowers and Fruit," a still-life of 1853, showing grapes, raspberries and roses in the Wallace Collection, London, P601.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] At lower left in black: Saint-Jean [remnants of an earlier signature "St. Jean" appear above the existing signature as pentimenti]

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters