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Still Life with Ham is a mid-19th century still life painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a number of items set on a table. The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Still Life with Ham
Artist	Philippe Rousseau
Year	c. 1870s
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	73 cm × 92.1 cm (29 in × 36.3 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Description

The painting is intricately and intimately detailed; not only did Rousseau render a ham (described as "succulent" by one source)[1] and a fully set table, he also included an issue of Le Figaro (a prominent French newspaper) addressed to his home. The work is highly contemporaneous to the early 1870s.[1]

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