<I>Still Life with Roses</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1885-87
name: label: Created by
content: Charles Ethan Porter, American, 1847 - 1923
notes: label: Caption
content: Charles Ethan Porter’s exceptional ability to interpret the natural world enabled him to build his career as a celebrated Connecticut artist. Classically trained, he attended both the National Academy of Design in New York (1869) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1881).
label: Caption
content: Following his return to the United States in 1884, Porter created Still Life with Roses. The painting’s soft palette, light background, and delicately rendered flowers reveal the aesthetic influence of French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, while retaining many of Porter’s uniquely American sensibilities. Porter’s still lifes were widely admired and collected by Connecticut residents, including landscape painter Frederic E. Church of the Hudson River School, who proclaimed Porter to be one of the finest colorists in history.
label: Description
content: This oil painting depicts a bouquet of off-white Christmas roses and greenery in a brown bowl. The round bowl, done in deep brown tones, stands to the right side of the picture. In the bowl are five blooms and several sprays of greenery. Several other blossoms, a sprig of greenery and a long stem lie scattered around the bowl. Peeking from behind the bowl are a pile of darker green leaves and a cluster of bright red berries. Hanging on the left hand background wall is a textile with a yellow, red, and white plaid pattern.
place: label: Place made
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Men
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.42.1
objectType: label: Type
content: oil paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public Domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oil paint on linen (material)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Framed Painting): 16 × 22 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (40.6 × 56.5 × 6.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Unframed Painting): 10 × 16 × 1/2 in. (25.4 × 40.6 × 1.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Crate): 24 1/2 × 31 1/2 × 10 in. (62.2 × 80 × 25.4 cm)