Still Life

A 3D virtual gallery of still life painting. Fruit, flowers, glass and dead game, arranged on a table and painted with more attention than most portraits get. The lowest-ranked genre in academic art, and often the most technically astonishing.

Every piece in this online exhibition comes from the Art Institute of Chicago's Open Access collection, released under CC0. Each label gives the artist, the date and the medium.

Works in this exhibition

Fruit Piece
Hannah Brown Skeele, 1860
Oil on canvas · Saint Louis
Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner, III, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. Herbert A Vance, and Jill Burnside Zeno; through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection · Hannah Brown Skeele on Wikipedia
Thistles
John Singer Sargent, 1883, 89
Oil on canvas · England
Gift of Brooks McCormick · John Singer Sargent on Wikipedia
The Irish Question
De Scott Evans, 1880s
Oil on canvas · United States
Purchased with funds provided by Carol W. Wardlaw and Jill Burnside Zeno; Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment Fund · De Scott Evans on Wikipedia
Wine, Cheese, and Fruit
John F. Francis, 1857
Oil on canvas · Pennsylvania
Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III and Mrs. Herbert Alexander Vance; Wesley M. Dixon Jr., Fund · John F. Francis on Wikipedia
Just Dessert
William Michael Harnett, 1891
Oil on canvas · United States
Friends of American Art Collection · William Harnett on Wikipedia
Bird's Nest and Ferns
Fidelia Bridges, 1863
Oil on panel · United States
Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III · Fidelia Bridges on Wikipedia
Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.
Raphaelle Peale, 1822
Oil on wood panel · Philadelphia
Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field · Raphaelle Peale on Wikipedia
Apples and Grapes
Claude Monet, 1880
Oil on canvas · France
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection · Claude Monet on Wikipedia
Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth
Martin Johnson Heade, 1885, 95
Oil on canvas · Florida
Purchased with funds provided by Gloria and Richard Manney; Harold L. Stuart Endowment Fund · Martin Johnson Heade on Wikipedia
Still Life with Flowers
Odilon Redon, 1905
Oil on canvas · France
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block · Odilon Redon on Wikipedia
Still-Life with a Green Flower Vase
Paula Modersohn-Becker, c. 1902
Oil on brown wood pulp board, varnished · Germany
Worcester Sketch Collection · Paula Modersohn-Becker on Wikipedia
Rack Picture for Dr. Nones
William A. Mitchell, 1879
Oil on canvas · Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. Endowment Fund; through prior gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of Abby Louise Spencer Eddy · William A. Mitchell on Wikipedia
Chrysanthemums
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881, 82
Oil on canvas · France
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection · Pierre-Auguste Renoir on Wikipedia
Fruits of the Midi
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881
Oil on canvas · France
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection · Pierre-Auguste Renoir on Wikipedia
Still Life with Geranium
Henri Matisse, 1906
Oil on canvas · France
Joseph Winterbotham Collection · Henri Matisse on Wikipedia
Young Woman Sewing
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1879
Oil on canvas · France
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection · Pierre-Auguste Renoir on Wikipedia