Portrait of Pig, 1970, oil on canvas.

Jamie Wyeth, American born 1946. Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford, PA

 

 

 

Still Life with a Ham and a Roemer, and detail, c. 1631-1634, oil on canvas.

  Willem Claesz Heda, 1594-1680/82, Dutch. Philadelphia Museum of Art, NY

 

The museum points out that, at this time, this would have been recognized as a luxurious meal.  Mustard and lemons were expensive imports available with the rise of global trade.  The tablecloth – bleached cotton – was a speciality from the artist’s hometown, Heda.

 

 

 

 

Still Life with Ham, oil on panel, 1650

Willem Claesz Heda, 1594-1680/82, Dutch. National Gallery, Washington, DC

 

The Met’s guidance on Dutch 17th century paintings of this kind is that they are genre paintings whose purpose is to warn viewers about the temptation of gluttony. 

 

 

 

Tureen: porcelain, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, London, 1750-60.  Winterthur, Delaware

 

 

 

 

Still Life of Kitchen Shelves with a Ham, 18th century, oil on canvas.  Artist not known.  French.  Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

Still Life with Bread, Ham, Cheese, and Vegetables, oil on canvas, c. 1772

Luis Melendez, 1716-1780, Spanish. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

 

 

Miniature dishes with ham:  Red border: porcelain, Europe, 1810-60.  Colourless edges: creamware, thought to be Staffordshire, England, 1780-1810. 

Winterthur, Delaware

 

 

 

 

Le Jambon, c. 1875-80, oil on canvas

Edouard Manet, 1832-1883. Glasgow Museum Collections loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023/4

This was one of the works acquired by Edgar Degas who, shocked when Manet died, re-evaluated and began buying Manet’s work.  He kept these works very close all his life.

 

 

 

 

The Ham, 1889, oil on canvas. 

Paul Gaugin, 1848-1903, French.  Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

Two bronze sculpture of sows made by André Harvey, 1941-2018, American, exhibited in his gallery in Greenville, DE and at the Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford, PA

The sculptor sketched the sows he then cast in bronze using the lost wax method.