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John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), Still Life With Oranges and Goblet of Wine, 1880s-1890s, American. Oil on artist's board. 15.6 x 23.2 cm. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (http://www.nga.gov); collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon.

Be the kitchen fat or be the kitchen thin, the food still life was a staple of 17th-century Dutch painting. If the larder was rich, the table was laden with seafood—oysters, lobsters, mussels—with golden goblets and silver platters, with sparkling crystal and claret wine, perhaps a partridge or two, a cut ham, certainly some grapes on the vine, and all of these objects tastefully arranged on a table covering of a snowy cloth or a luxurious Turkish carpet; but if the larder was thin, the table would be wooden and bare, containing nothing more than a bit of cheese, a sliced herring, a humble drinking glass, some beer. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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