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
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...