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Raphaelle Peale
(American, 1774 - 1825)
Still Life with Peach Halves
1822
12 5/8 × 14 3/16 in. (32.1 × 36 cm)
83.23
Purchased with Museum funds, 1983
Raphaelle Peale was among the many talented children of Charles Willson Peale, a leading artist, scientist, and public intellectual of the time, who founded the first museum in this country. Philadelphia was a center for art and science during the early nineteenth century, and the Peale family pursued interests in both vocations. In addition to the stylistic contributions that Raphaelle Peale made to the development of still-life painting in the United States, his fruit pictures record the era’s horticultural achievements. His father’s Belfield estate, a farm located just outside of Philadelphia, was likely the source of many of the fruits Peale depicted.
Not On View
