Still Life with Cake, Lemon, Strawberries, and Glass
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 25.72 × 35.4 cm (10 1/8 × 13 15/16 in.) framed: 36.2 × 46.36 × 3.81 cm (14 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
2014.18.37
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
John Frederick Peto · 1854–1907
John Frederick Peto, born on May 21, 1854, in Philadelphia to picture-frame gilder Thomas Hope Peto and Catherine Marion Ham, grew up as the eldest of five children, primarily raised by his maternal grandparents and aunts. Largely self-taught, he briefly studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1877, where he first exhibited and befriended fellow trompe-l'œil artist William M. Harne...