The painting features a large slice of yellow cake, a halved lemon, a glass of pale-yellow liquid with a slice of lemon and a straw in it, and a white plate filled with red raspberries.

Still Life with Cake, Lemon, Strawberries, and Glass

John Frederick Peto (American, 1854–1907)

Date
1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
10 × 14 in (25.7 × 35.4 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.18.37. See the museum’s record
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
30 × 40 in, filling the paper (trims 3.2 % of the picture)
Center
54¼ in (138 cm) from the floor
Above the console table
8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width
36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height
Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
Still Life with Cake, Lemon, Strawberries, and Glass: a 30 × 40 in print hung above a console table, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
30 × 40 in landscape print (76 × 102 cm), centered 54¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.