Severin Roesen, Two-Tiered Still Life with Fruit and Sunset Landscape, c. 1867
Severin Roesen (American, born Germany, 1816 - 1872)
Two-Tiered Still Life with Fruit and Sunset Landscape, c. 1867
Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches (92.08 x 127.64 cm)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Purchase: acquired through the bequest of Dorothy K. Rice, F91-58
To balance the dark and brooding still-life by Peto, I was eager to get something more Victorian in feeling and luckily ended up with this Roesen. It’s one of Roesen’s largest and most ambitious works and is also in near-perfect condition. Unlike most 19th-century paintings, it has never been relined.