SARAH MIRIAM PEALE (1800-1885)

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ID 883540
Lot 202 | SARAH MIRIAM PEALE (1800-1885)
SARAH MIRIAM PEALE (1800-1885)

Watermelon

signed and dated 'Sarah M Peale 1822.' (lower right)

oil on panel

13 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (34.3 x 49.5 cm.)

Painted in 1822.





Provenance

The artist.

(Probably) Mary Claypoole Rockhill, cousin of the above, by descent.

Private collection, Cincinnati, Ohio, by descent.

Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 3, sold by the above.

Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above.

Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003.



Literature

R.D. Schwarz, One Hundred Fifty Years of Philadelphia Still-Life Painting: Philadelphia Collection LXII, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997, illustrated.



Exhibited

(Possibly) Baltimore, Maryland, Peale Museum, First Annual Exhibition, 1822, no. 128.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Eleventh Annual Exhibition, 1822, no. 452 (as Still Life–Water Melon).

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Fruits of Summer: Nineteenth Century American Still Life, June 6-September 7, 2009.
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