Still Life with Fan and Pendant

c. 1865/1875

Samuel Marsden Brookes

Associated Names
Samuel Marsden Brookes

Painter, British, 1816 - 1892

A tall silver vase with gold details holds a bouquet of white flowers with green leaves and red blossoms. The color palette includes metallic silver, gold, white, green, red, and teal. Positioned on the table, the vase stands centrally, with a blue box behind it to the left and a jewelry box with a pearl and flower ring design slightly to the right. There is also a piece of fabric with a tassel and small scissors lying flat behind the vase.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on board

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

  • Dimensions

    overall: 45.7 x 31.1 cm (18 x 12 1/4 in.)
    framed: 62.23 × 46.99 × 4.45 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.165.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Maxwell Galleries Ltd., San Francisco), by at least 1991; purchased January 1992 by William H. [1929-2020] and Abigail Booth Gerdts, New York; gift (partial and promised) 2004 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Bountiful Harvest: 19th-Century California Still Life Painting, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; The Oakland Museum, 1991-1992, pl. 19, as Still Life.

1998

  • For Beauty and For Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left: S.M. Brookes

Wikidata ID

Q20188671

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