Title: Flowers in a Silver Caster, Fruit in the Foreground
Object type: Drawing
Date: 18th century
Artist:  Jacques André Portail 
Artist bio: French, Brest 1695–1759 Versailles
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor, over traces of graphite
Dimensions: 13 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.  (34.6 x 27.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Fruit, term: Butterflies, term: Flowers