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Flower Still Life with Nest of Eggs
Flower Still Life with Nest of Eggs
Flower Still Life with Nest of Eggs

Flower Still Life with Nest of Eggs


Artist (American, b. Prussia, c. 1815 - c. 1872)
Datec. 1855–57
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 29 7/8 x 24 in. (75.9 x 61 cm)
Frame: 37 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (95.3 x 80 x 7.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.104
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On view
Century
  • Nineteenth
Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005; Babcock Galleries, New York, March 13, 1996 (no. 6)ProvenanceAmerican Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Christie’s, New York, March 13, 1996, sale 8362, lot 6 Acquired in 1996 through Babcock Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesAmerican Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, March 13, 1996 (New York: Christie’s, 1996), 15 (ill., color, no. 6). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 16, 16, 201 (ill. 17, 201). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 111 (ill.), 112.