Jump to content

Still Life with Ham (Philippe Rousseau)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Still Life with Ham
ArtistPhilippe Rousseau
Yearc. 1870s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions73 cm × 92.1 cm (29 in × 36.3 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Still Life with Ham is a 1870s still life painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a number of items set on a table. The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Description

[edit]

The painting is intricately and intimately detailed; not only did Rousseau render a ham (described as "succulent" by one source)[1] and a fully set table, he also included an issue of Le Figaro (a prominent French newspaper) addressed to his home. The work is highly contemporaneous to the early 1870s.[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "www.metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.