Still Life
Morston Constantine Ream
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
This artfully composed still life of a dessert table evokes the material and aesthetic opulence of dining in a well-to-do Victorian home—the kind of setting in which the flatware exhibited below would have also appeared. Interestingly, the silver cream pitcher and sugar bowl decorated with Grecian motifs closely resemble objects produced by the Reed & Barton company at the time of Morston Ream’s painting.
Caption
Morston Constantine Ream (American, 1840–1898). Still Life, 1876. Oil on canvas, 32 1/16 × 25 7/8 in. (81.4 × 65.8 cm) frame: 45 7/8 × 39 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. (116.5 × 101 × 13.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 87.139.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Still Life
Date
1876
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
32 1/16 × 25 7/8 in. (81.4 × 65.8 cm) frame: 45 7/8 × 39 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. (116.5 × 101 × 13.3 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: ""Morston Ream / 76"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
87.139.1
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