Pomegranates and Other Fruit in a Landscape

Colors in this work

Artist: Abraham Brueghel
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 3/8 x 29 1/8 in. (61.9 x 74 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #35261B · 37%

Raw Walnut · Brown family · #6F4C25 · 15%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #937039 · 13%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #523924 · 8%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #5E3417 · 7%

Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #2A261C · 6%

Raw Ochre Field · Yellow family · #C49D55 · 5%

Press Black · Black family · #191611 · 4%

Carbon Ground · Black family · #21221B · 3%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B9AC92 · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #843B15 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #020105 · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #0E120E · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #B96221 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #050100 · <1%

Midnight Indigo · Black family · #1E1818 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #99A17E · <1%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #646F5A · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Purchase, 1871

10 tags

Still Life Both · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the work as a still life, and the image visibly shows an arranged display of fruit with a lizard on ledges.
Landscapes Both · 95%

The title identifies a landscape, and the upper background visibly contains rocky forms, foliage, and a receding outdoor setting behind the fruit.
Animals Both · 99%

Lizards are listed in the catalog subjects, and a lizard is clearly visible crossing the lower foreground.

Dark Colors Visual · 94%

Dark brown, near-black, and shadowed passages dominate the composition, with warmer highlights concentrated on the fruit and background openings.
Earth Tones Visual · 94%

Ochres, umbers, muted greens, reddish browns, and gold tones organize the palette across the fruit, ledges, foliage, and landscape.
Dense Composition Visual · 95%

Overlapping fruit, leaves, ledges, rocky forms, and the lizard occupy much of the pictorial field, creating a tightly filled arrangement.
Highly Detailed Visual · 86%

Fruit skins, pomegranate seeds, grape clusters, leaves, and the lizard are differentiated through numerous small highlights and surface marks.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog records the medium as oil on canvas.
Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog classification identifies the object as a painting.

17th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1650–1674, within the seventeenth century.

Abraham Brueghel. Pomegranates and Other Fruit in a Landscape. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.