This painting shows a sliced watermelon on a white plate. The watermelon has red-pink flesh dotted with black seeds and smaller white seeds and surrounded by a dark green rind. Half of the watermelon is intact on the right, while the other half has been cut up in sections of different sizes on the left. The surface under the plate is gray with black shadows, and the background is gray.

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Watermelon on a Plate

American 19th Century

mid 19th century

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.) ; framed: 62.2 x 76.8 x 9.8 cm (24 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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