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The Old Violin

1886
oil on canvas
Overall: 96.5 x 60 cm (38 x 23 5/8 in.) framed: 119.7 x 84.1 x 5.1 cm (47 1/8 x 33 1/8 x 2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

notes
ated by showing signs of wear and age throughout the painting. Even the songs, one from Bellini's La Sonnambula, and the other the popular song "Helas, Quelle Douleur," are concerned with temporal change. But it is the violin itself, now mute, but worn with use and still dusted with rosin, that speaks most evocatively of past pleasures.
GAAnonymous
The Banker's Table

1877
oil on canvas
8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
The Artist's Letter Rack

1879
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
Still Life with Violin

1885
Oil on panel
54.93 x 45.08 cm (21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

 GAAnonymous
Still Life - Violin and Music

1888
oil on canvas
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
Still Life

1888
oil on canvas
14 x 17 1/8 in. (35.6 x 43.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
Old Models

1892
oil on canvas
138.11 x 71.75 cm (54 3/8 x 28 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

 GAAnonymous
New York Daily News

1888
Oil on wood
5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (14 x 19.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
My Gems

1888
oil on wood
overall: 45.7 x 35 cm (18 x 13 3/4 in.) framed: 62.2 x 52.7 x 6.4 cm (24 1/2 x 20 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Munich Still Life

1882
oil on canvas
Overall: 24 5/8 x 30 1/16 in. (62.548 x 76.36 cm)

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, TX

notes
This still life is full of the everyday objects William Harnett would have known during his student days in Germany.The painting displays the meticulously detailed realism that marked Harnett's brief career. In the late 19th century, trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") still lifes such as this were enormously popular with collectors and the public.
GAAnonymous
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