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A Peach, Seville

National Gallery of Art · Painting

A Peach, Seville

George Henry Hall

Date
1866
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 20.32 × 15.56 cm (8 × 6 1/8 in.) framed: 31.75 × 26.67 × 7.62 cm (12 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
2018.44.7
Credit line
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Time span
1851 to 1875
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
  • fruit
  • still
  • Peach
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, in NGA curatorial files.

Inscription

lower right: H. Hall Sept. 24th, Seville 1866

NGA object ID 214119. 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.