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Still Life with Cake

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Still Life with Cake
ArtistRaphaelle Peale
Year1818
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions27.3 cm × 38.7 cm (10.7 in × 15.2 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Accession59.166

Still Life with Cake is an early 19th century still life painting by Raphaelle Peale. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The work is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 756.

Description

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The painting has some similarities with Spanish still life paintings, which Peale may have been inspired by when he visited Mexico.[1] Still Life with Cake as "Still Life—Wine, Cakes, Grapes, &c."[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Still Life with Cake". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-10-18.