American School, 19th Century Still Life with Overturned Basket of Peaches

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American School, 19th Century

Still Life with Overturned Basket of Peaches
Signed "S.M Peale 1862" l.l.
Oil on canvas, the basket seen against a backdrop of a column base, English ivy, and grasses, 21x 17 in., unframed.
Condition: Small puncture, repaired punctures, minor inpainting, craquelure.
Estimate $700-900

puncture at right center, about 1/2 in square. several patches to reverse, corresponding with two or three small-medium areas of inpaint to front, including in the top few peaches.


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