A saint's name on a still life

Sainte-Pélagie is a place in Paris, and the title uses it the way a title uses any address — to say where, not who. Nothing in the subject is religious: the record names apples, pears and flowers on a table. This is the most complete separation in the collection between a saint's name and a saint's picture, and it is worth stating plainly, because a reader who arrives here through the word saint should not be left to assume an iconography that the entry does not contain.

What the record holds

The catalogue dates the work to 1871 and gives the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, as its location. No dimensions are recorded. The style is Realism and the nationality French; the measured colour family is brown. It is filed under Still Life with Fruit and Flower as subheadings, and under Botanicals — 9 entries in this collection carry the Still Life heading, which makes it one of the rarer categories here.

An odd tag, reported as it stands

The category field on this entry also contains Photography, on a painted still life dated 1871. That is reported here rather than explained, because the record offers no explanation and this page is not in a position to supply one. A catalogue field that looks wrong is still the catalogue's field; correcting it would mean asserting something the record does not say.