Severin Roesen
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Severin Roesen was a Prussian-American painter known for his abundant fruit and flower still lifes, and is today recognized as one of the major American painters in that genre from the nineteenth cent
Still Life with a Basket of Fruit,
Still Life with Fruit, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Flower Still Life with Bird's Nest
Still Life with Fruit, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Apricot
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An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus. Usually an apricot is from the species Prunus armeniaca, but the fruits of the other species in Prunus
Severin Roesen
…Here the composition is balanced by light and dark grapes at either side and filled in by scattered raspberries, cherries, peaches, apples, pears, and apricots. Many of these compositional elements, if not the items depicted, were derived from seventeenth-century Dutch still life paintings by such artists as…
Apricot and cross section
Habit
Leaves
Flowers