This paper is the the analysis of Conversation Piece, an oil painting by Lilly Martin Spencer in 1851-52 during the antebellum period. The piece is now displayed in Gallery 758 of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Conversation Piece by Lilly Martin Spencer Illustrates the idea of sentimentalism by depicting the image of a middle-class domestic life.
In Conversation Piece, Spencer shows a family of three relaxing near the dining table. The plates and wines left on the dining table indicates that the scene occurs after the dinning time. The mother sits on the chair with the baby on her lap; the father stands next to them and holds two cherries above the reaching baby. The gazes of both the father and the mother are toward the baby which implies that
In Conversation Piece, Spencer shows a family of three relaxing near the dining table. The plates and wines left on the dining table indicates that the scene occurs after the dinning time. The mother sits on the chair with the baby on her lap; the father stands next to them and holds two cherries above the reaching baby. The gazes of both the father and the mother are toward the baby which implies that