Still life with The Toledo Blade

Harnett, William Michael (1848-1892)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1886

Height:

56.1 cm  (22 1/16 in.)

Width:

66.5 cm  (26 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Harnett painted this tromp l'oeil for Isaac N. Reed, a Toledo druggist whose business often took him to New York where Harnett worked. The books, pipe, candle, violin, and a folded newspaper are favorite props in Harnett’s works. The depicted newspaper is the September 17, 1886 issue of the Toledo Blade; later renamed The Blade, it remains Toledo’s daily paper. [Toledo Museum of Art description]

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3801