About the Artwork
Still Life with Fruit
ca. 1769
John Beale Bordley
1727-1804
American
Unknown
Oil on cardboard
Unframed: 10 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (27.3 × 33.3 cm) Framed: 13 5/8 × 16 1/4 × 1 7/8 inches (34.6 × 41.3 × 4.8 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
52.162
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
the artist's daughter, Mrs. James Gibson
niece of Charles Willson Peale, Maria J. Peale or his granddaughter, Mary Jane Peale
until 1952, Rubens H. Peale
1925-1941, Mary H. Sully (Mrs. Albert W.). William Macbeth, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Mary H. Sully Collection of American Paintings. Exh. cat., John Levy Galleries. New York, 1941, no. 2.
Paintings by the Peale Family. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1954, no. 43.
The Peale Family, Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, p. 72, no. 70 (ill.).
Sellers, Charles Coleman. “Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 59, 3 (1969).
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, p. 265 (ill.).
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John Beale Bordley, Still Life with Fruit, ca. 1769, oil on cardboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 52.162.
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