Still Life with Ham (Philippe Rousseau) explained

Still Life with Ham
Artist:Philippe Rousseau
Year: 1870s
Material:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:73
Width Metric:92.1
City:New York City
Museum:Metropolitan Museum of Art

Still Life with Ham is a 1870s still life painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a number of items set on a table. The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Description

The painting is intricately and intimately detailed; not only did Rousseau render a ham (described as "succulent" by one source) and a fully set table, he also included an issue of Le Figaro (a prominent French newspaper) addressed to his home. The work is highly contemporaneous to the early 1870s.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: www.metmuseum.org. www.metmuseum.org. 2018-08-09.