James Peale
Born Chestertown, Maryland, 1749. Died Philadelphia, May 24, 1831.

Still Life, 18251
Oil on Eastern white pine panel2
18 3/8 x 26 1/2 x 1/2 in. (46.8 x 67.4 x 1.4 cm)
Museum purchase, 1939.37

Inscription
On the reverse, in black paint, in script, from bottom-center to bottom-right: "Painted by James Peale/in the 76 year of his age 1825"

Provenance
"A private family in Philadelphia"; purchased by the Worcester Art Museum from Arthur Sussel, a Philadelphia antiques dealer.3

References
Worcester Annual Report 1939, 10 and 14.

"An American Still Life," Worcester News Bulletin 4: 7 (April 1939): n.p.

"Art throughout America," Art News 37: 29 (April 15, 1939): 19.

Baur 1940, 86, 88, 91.

Born 1947, 11, 14, and fig. 16.

Cincinnati 1954, 26.

Schenectady 1958, 30.

Price 1972, 62.

Reutlinger 1975, 36, 37.

Worcester 1994, 192.

Exhibitions
The Peale Family, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1–31, 1954, cat. no. 99.

The Self-Conscious Republic Exhibition, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, N.Y., January 12–March 30, 1958, cat. no. 199.

The Light of Day, Worcester Art Museum, July 27–September 18, 1966.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. pp. 36, 37.

Notes
1. This painting also has been published as Still Life with Grapes (Schenectady 1958, 30).

2. Identification of the wood is based on a scientific analysis of the cell structure by dendrologist R. Bruce Hoadley, January 5, 2000.

3. Arthur Sussel, Philadelphia, to Worcester Art Museum, invoice, March 28, 1939, object file, Worcester Art Museum.