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The Old Kettle

c. 1890s
oil on wood
overall: 12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
The Old Cremona

ca. 1887–90
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 UnratedAnonymous
The Blue Envelope

c. 1890s
oil on wood
overall: 10.8 x 16.5 cm (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) framed: 20 x 26 x 1.6 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Mug, Pipe and Match

CA. 1887
Oil on fiberboard
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 IN. (15.6 x 23.4 CM.)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Lights of Other Days

1906
oil on canvas
77.5 x 45 1/4 cm (30 1/2 x 45 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

 GAAnonymous
For the Track

1895
oil on canvas
Overall: 110.5 x 75.9 cm (43 1/2 x 29 7/8 in.) framed: 135.9 x 101.6 cm (53 1/2 x 40 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Fish House Door

1905
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 22 1/8 in. (76.835 x 56.2 cm)

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, TX

notes
An eel-fishers tools of the trade are the subject of this late still life by John Frederick Peto, a close associate of William Michael Harnett, the other great trompe loeil (fool the eye) still-life painter of the late 19th century. Peto often chose to represent doors with objects hanging on or tacked to them, such as in this work. He frequently...
GAAnonymous
Door with Lanterns

late 1880s
oil on canvas
49 13/16 x 29 7/8 in. (126.5 x 75.9 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
Book, Mug, Candlestick and Pipe

c. 1890s
oil on canvas
12 1/4 X 16" (31.12 x 40.64 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

notes
Aside from this early inspiration of still-life forms, Peto also appears to have taken from Eakins his sense of painting as a meditative, almost psychological, act; and as with so many of Eakins's later portraits of isolated introspective individuals, Book, Mug, Candlestick and Pipe bears a similar mood of quiet closure
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An English Breakfast

c. 1890s
oil on academy board
overall: 14.8 x 22 cm (5 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
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