Artwork
An Apple, caville rouge, and other Fruits
An Apple, caville rouge, and other Fruits is a photography by the Romanticist artist Unknown. It dates from 1791 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
About this work
Overview
Created in 1791 by the artist identified as 1092_person, *An Apple, caville rouge, and other Fruits* is a still‑life composition presently in the collection of the Museum of Ethnography. The work presents a modest arrangement of fruit, centered on an apple and a red caville, accompanied by additional produce, leaves, and stems.
Subject & Meaning
The painting focuses on everyday objects—fruit rendered with careful observation—inviting contemplation of natural abundance and the transient quality of harvest. By grouping the items in a decorative yet restrained manner, the artist emphasizes the quiet beauty of ordinary material culture without overt symbolic narrative.
Technique & Style
Executed in a realistic manner, the artist employs precise brushwork to convey the texture of skin, flesh, and foliage. A nuanced palette of reds, greens, and earth tones creates spatial depth, while subtle chiaroscuro models the forms, producing a sense of three‑dimensionality within the flat surface.
History & Provenance
The piece was completed in the late eighteenth century and has remained in institutional care, currently housed at the Museum of Ethnography. Its provenance traces back to the artist’s original output, with no recorded changes of ownership beyond its acquisition by the museum.
Artist & collection
Domestic Scene
Giacomo and Cardinal Marco, investing Andrea, Abbot of San Zeno, with his Benefice
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Portrait of a Woman
Madonna and Child with Saints in the Enclosed Garden
Venus and Minerva
Family Group of Four on Sofa
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
