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This painting shows a bundle of asparagus tied with a brown string, with two red tomatoes in front of it and a green melon in the background. The asparagus bundle is in the center, the dark green spears pointing to the upper right corner and the lighter, jagged ends pointing towards the bottom left. The shiny red tomatoes are in front, on the lower right, and the melon is behind the asparagus on the left, with vertical stripes of light and dark green and a short vine curling from the top. To the right of the vegetables is a thin curling vine with wide leaves. The objects are placed on a gray surface, and the wall behind them is a gradient of brown, lighter on the right and darker on the left.
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This painting shows a bundle of asparagus tied with a brown string, with two red tomatoes in front of it and a green melon in the background. The asparagus bundle is in the center, the dark green spears pointing to the upper right corner and the lighter, jagged ends pointing towards the bottom left. The shiny red tomatoes are in front, on the lower right, and the melon is behind the asparagus on the left, with vertical stripes of light and dark green and a short vine curling from the top. To the right of the vegetables is a thin curling vine with wide leaves. The objects are placed on a gray surface, and the wall behind them is a gradient of brown, lighter on the right and darker on the left.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Asparagus, Tomatoes, and a Squash

Paul Lacroix

Date
1865
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 34.29 × 41.28 cm (13 1/2 × 16 1/4 in.) framed: 47.63 × 57.79 × 10.16 cm (18 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
2018.44.14
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
  • Realist
  • Squash
  • food
  • still
  • Asparagus
  • Tomatoes
Provenance

Probably Edwin D. Morgan, [1811-1883], New York; probably (his estate sale, Chickering Hall, New York, January 1886, no. 8).[1] William H. Gerdts [1929-2020], New York, by at least 1965;[2] gift 2018 to NGA. [1] Per documention from Abigail Booth Gerdts provided with gift, in NGA curatorial files. [2] 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.

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lower left: P. Lacroix, N.Y. 65

NGA object ID 214129. 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.