Still Life: Fruit
Artist: Severin Roesen (American, 1816–1872)
Original Dimensions: 36" x 50"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1855) "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." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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