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The Wealth of Autumn
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About this work
Andrew John Henry Way created a dramatic setting for this still life. Cupids dance on the pedestal below the arrangement of fruit, and above the still life is an urn surrounded by dense foliage and trees. The succulent peaches and glistening grapes announce the abundance of the season, and the idyllic landscape to the left is a reminder of the fertile autumn soil. Way trained in Florence and fell in love with the colors and varieties of Tuscan grapes that populated the countryside. His still-life scenes were immensely popular among his Baltimore patrons.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineThe Wealth of Autumn. 1869. Andrew John Henry Way, born Washington, DC 1826-died Baltimore, MD 1888. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase. CC0.
