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Wine, Cheese, and Fruit
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "J. F. Francis/ Pt. 1857"
Publications
“Important Works and New Galleries at Art Institute,” Antiques and Auction News, Mar. 24, 1995, 27–28 (ill.). “Chicago’s Art Institute Lists Recent Acquisitions,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, July 21, 1995, 80 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 184–85, no. 84. Judith A. Barter, "True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still–Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America," Museum Studies 31, 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005) p. 35 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John F. Francis / American, 1808–1886
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.5 × 76.2 cm (25 × 30 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Pennsylvania
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III and Mrs. Herbert Alexander Vance; Wesley M. Dixon Jr., Fund
- Accession no.
- 1994.239
Provenance
Elizabeth Selden Hubbard, Findley, Ohio; by descent to William Buckley Hubbard, by 1994; Christie’s, New York, 1994; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.
More by John F. Francis in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001579
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