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A speckled yellow apple and bunches of purple and green grapes are arranged next to an intricately pierced white bowl piled with more apples and grapes in this almost square still life painting. The objects sit on a sand-colored stone ledge, and the fruit gleams in bright light coming from the upper left. Sitting to the left of the basket, the yellow apple has brown spots and a worm hole near the top. In front of it, the green grapes partially cascade over the front edge of the ledge. The purple grapes lie in the shadow behind the apple. The white bowl has a wide, flaring mouth rimmed with dark blue, and sits to our right of center. It is pierced with four rows of narrowly spaced, undulating waves that spread out from a central eight-sided medallion. One red and two more yellow apples, one of which also has a small wormhole, sit along the lip of the bowl. They are topped by a cluster of green grapes framed by green leaves and a stem that angles into the upper right corner of the painting. The background is silvery gray to our right, where the light falls, and is in black shadow in the upper left.

James Peale, Fruit Still Life with Chinese Export Basket, 1824, oil on wood, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.7.1

Canceled—西馆精品 (Chinese: Mandarin)

Language Tours

  • Wednesday, April 15, 2020
  • 12:00 p.m.
  • West Building, Main Floor - Rotunda
  • In-person

西馆精品：早期意大利到早期现代艺术

西馆收藏了从13世纪到20世纪早期的欧洲和美国艺术品。这条线路将带您参观本馆一些最有代表性的藏品，包括达芬奇的名作《吉内薇拉·班琪》。