Mary Jane Peale

American, 1827 - 1902

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A young man shown from the waist up behind a tabletop takes up the left half of this vertical portrait, and a geranium in a terracotta pot takes up the right half of the painting. The man has pale, peachy skin and dark brown hair. He wears a pair of glasses with small oval lenses, a white neckcloth, and a brown coat. He looks down and to our left. He holds a second pair of silver-rimmed glasses in his right hand on the table, and his left hand, on our right, rests on the edge of the terracotta pot. The tall, leggy geranium nearly reaches the upper edge of the canvas and has two clusters of small red flowers near its top. The young man and plant are shown against a fawn-brown background. The artist signed and dated the painting in white letters in the lower right corner: “Rem Peale 1801.”
Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale with a Geranium, 1801, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1985.59.1

Rubens Peale with a Geranium

Rembrandt Peale · 1801 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.59.1

Charles Willson Peale, John Philip de Haas, 1772, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.9

John Philip de Haas

Charles Willson Peale · 1772 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.9

Bibliography

1884

  • Peale, Mary Jane. "List of Pictures I Own, 1884". Peale-Sellers Collection, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.