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This painting is of a pomegranate that has been cut in half, exposing its red seeds. Some seeds have spilled out in front of it. The fruit is set upright against a dark brown background, and it casts a dark shadow behind it. The seeds are bright red with white highlights, while the rind of the fruit is a slightly darker red. The area containing the seeds is a light-yellow color with darker indentations in places where seeds have fallen out.
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This painting is of a pomegranate that has been cut in half, exposing its red seeds. Some seeds have spilled out in front of it. The fruit is set upright against a dark brown background, and it casts a dark shadow behind it. The seeds are bright red with white highlights, while the rind of the fruit is a slightly darker red. The area containing the seeds is a light-yellow color with darker indentations in places where seeds have fallen out.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

A Pomegranate, Siena

George Henry Hall

Date
1885
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 18.42 × 22.86 cm (7 1/4 × 9 in.) framed: 40.39 × 44.45 × 4.45 cm (15 7/8 × 17 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
2018.44.8
Credit line
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • Acquired after publication of American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]
  • Realist
  • fruit
  • still
  • Pomegranate
Provenance

William H. Gerdts [1929-2020], New York, by at least 1965;[1] gift 2018 to NGA. [1] Gerdts lent the painting to a circa 1965 exhibition at the American Federation of the Arts in New York; per documentation provided by Abigail Booth Gerdts, in NGA curatorial files.

Inscription

lower right: Geo. Henry Hall / Siena '85

NGA object ID 214120. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.