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In this painting, a wicker basket is filled with yellow pears and a few red cherries. The basket rests on a table, and more pears and cherries are scattered in front of it, casting shadows on the white tablecloth. There is a piece of fabric hanging over the handle of the basket; the cloth is white with red trim and frayed edges. The background is dark brown.
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In this painting, a wicker basket is filled with yellow pears and a few red cherries. The basket rests on a table, and more pears and cherries are scattered in front of it, casting shadows on the white tablecloth. There is a piece of fabric hanging over the handle of the basket; the cloth is white with red trim and frayed edges. The background is dark brown.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Basket of Pears and Crabapples

John F. Francis

Date
n.d.
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
overall: 29.53 × 32.39 cm (11 5/8 × 12 3/4 in.) framed: 45.09 × 47.63 × 6.99 cm (17 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
2018.44.5
Credit line
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • Acquired after publication of American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]
  • Still life
  • Realist
  • Pears
  • Basket
  • fruit
  • still
  • Crabapples
Provenance

William H. Gerdts [1929-2020], New York, by at least 1965;[1] gift 2018 to NGA. [1] Gerdts lent the painting to a circa 1965 exhibition at the American Federation of the Arts in New York; per documentation provided by Abigail Booth Gerdts at the time of the gift, in NGA curatorial files.

NGA object ID 214117. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.