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Accession #	67.9
Artist	Severin Roesen
Title	Still Life with Fruit
Date	ca. 1860
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	40 1/16 × 50 1/8 in. (101.7 × 127.3 cm) frame: 48 3/4 × 58 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (123.8 × 149.2 × 12.1 cm)
Signed	Signed lower right (initials in monogram): "S Roesen"
Credit Line	Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location	American Identities: Colony to Nation / Inventing American Landscape

Curatorial Remarks: In the mid-nineteenth century, still-life painting underwent a revival in the northeastern United States. Working in a style based on Dutch models, which depicted a multitude of fruits and flowers, Severin Roesen cultivated a popular following with the German community in Pennsylvania. This composition, one of his most elaborate, portrays a grand arrangement of various fruits, a bird’s nest, and a finely painted glass of water, and conveys a sense of wealth and abundance.