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Raphael
Young Man with an Apple
1504
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Willem van Aelst
Still Life with Peaches
ca. 1657
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Donato Creti
Sleeping Child holding an Apple
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Nicolas-François Gillet
Paris with the Golden Apple
1757
marble statuette (reception piece)
Musée du Louvre

Henri Fantin-Latour
Three Peaches on a Plate
1868
oil on paper mounted on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

De Scott Evans
Still Life with Apple
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Heinrich Kühn
Still Life with Apples
ca. 1910
autochrome
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Marsden Hartley
Three Pears
1913
oil on board
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Henri Matisse
Bowl of Apples on a Table
1916
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

André Derain
Pears and Jug
ca. 1928
oil on canvas
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Georgia O'Keeffe
Apple Blossoms
1930
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Franz Kline
Still Life with Pear
ca. 1945-47
oil on board
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Edgar Fernhout
Rotten Apples against Paint Rag
1953
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

William Scott
Pots and Pear
1955
oil on board
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Robert Kulicke
Two Pears on Gray Background
1976
oil on board
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

William Clift
Old Rhode Island Greening Apple Tree, Milton, New York
1986
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Margot Sandeman
Anna contemplating Pear
2003
oil and collage on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Commendatory Verses, printed in the first edition (1623) of The Duchess of Malfi

To his friend, Mr. John Webster, upon his Duchess of Malfi.

        I never saw thy duchess till the day

        That she was lively body'd in thy play;

        Howe'er she answer'd her low-rated love,

        Her brothers' anger did so fatal prove,

        Yet my opinion is, she might speak more,

        But never, in her life, so well before.

– William Rowley

To the reader of the author, and his Duchess of Malfi.

        Crown him a poet, whom nor Rome, nor Greece,

        Transcend in all theirs, for a masterpiece:

        In which, whiles words and matter change, and men

        Act one another, he, from whose clear pen

        They all took life, to memory hath lent

        A lasting fame, to raise his monument.

– John Ford