LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

5.98 in. (15.20 cm.) (height) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed Painted By My Father John F. Peto - Helen Peto Smily verso

Exhibited:

Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas, . The Salzer Collection: Trompe-L'Oeil & Still Life Paintings , October-November 1964, no. 32, p. 22. Charlotte, North Carolina, The Mint Museum of Art, . The Salzer Collection, Trompe-L'Oeil & Still Life Paintings, A Loan Exhibition , February-March 1965, no. 32. La Jolla, California, La Jolla Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, . The Reminiscent Object: Paintings by William Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto and John Haberle , July-October 1965. Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, . Spectacle of Realism: An Exhibition of 19th Century European and American Paintings , 1970, no. 45, illustrated n.p. Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Museum of Art; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, . Reality and Deception , October 1974-April 1975, no. 54

Literature:

Portraits of Objects: Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection , Fresno, California, 1984, no. 36, illustrated

Provenance:

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles, California, by 1964. Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art & Science, Fresno, California (gift from the above, 1982). Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2010