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Pitajaya Fruit, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
June 1853
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Classification
- Studies (visual works)
- Dimensions
- 29.5 × 36.9 cm (11 5/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Colombia
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Still life study of pitajaya fruit, also known as dragon fruit, in Colombia. Two pitajayas are prominently situated on a flat stone surface at center. A wedge has been cut out of the rearmost fruit and placed before it at right. A whole pitajaya is placed foremost at left. The fruit's red and green scaly surface, as well as its dark reddish-purple, seeded interior, are clearly on display. Source of light originates out of frame at upper left. Background is nondescript brown wall, shaded at right.
