Just Dessert  1891

One of only three works William Michael Harnett painted in the year before his death, [i]Just Dessert[/i] offers the viewer a display of foodstuffs sumptuously arranged on a marble surface. The traditional tabletop composition is one that Harnett often employed in his still lifes. In [i]Just Dessert[/i], the exotic clashes with the quotidian—Maraschino liqueur, half a coco...