Raphaelle Peale – Steak Salad in a Lettuce Leaf with Fresh Herbs
Raphaelle Peale, Still Life with Steak (c.1817)oil on panel, 33.97 x 49.53 cm, Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art Visual characteristics of the slab of raw beef in Raphaelle Peale’s Still Life with Steak (c.1817) are repeated within other elements of the composition. The curve of the cabbage is mimicked by the curve of the...
Raphaelle Peale – Part 2 – Wild Blackberry Jelly
This guest post is by my mother, Julie Fizell. I thought it would be so fun to walk in Megan’s shoes for a while, and she agreed to a guest post. Her father Ed and I quickly decided to make blackberry jelly. We had made strawberry jam several times together and managed to stay married,...
Raphaelle Peale – Part 1 – Wild Blackberry & Honey Frozen Yogurt
Raphaelle Peale, Blackberries (c.1813), oil on wood panel, 18.4 x 26 cm, de Young Fine Art Museum Raphaelle Peale exhibited Blackberries (c.1813) twice at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, first in 1814 and then again in 1817. The small painting depicts both ripe and unripe berries in a small shallow bowl. The subject...
Raphaelle Peale – Orange & Lemon Ice Cream
Raphaelle Peale, A Dessert (Still Life with Lemons and Oranges) (1814)Oil on panel, 33.97 x 42.26 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphaelle Peale was a bit of a rebel in the 18th century (as rebellious as becoming a still life painter can be). He was full of the ideals of the American Revolution and...