Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds

Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds ( engl Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds ) is a painting by the American painter Martin Johnson Heade, which he created in 1871 as a panel painting with oil colors on wood. It is 34.8 cm high and 45.6 cm wide without frame, including frame 63.8 x 74.6, the dimensions x 8,9 cm. It is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC issued and the museum was donated in 1982 by the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The.

Description

With this painting Heade gives the viewer insight into an exotic environment. Lichen cover dead branches, moss hangs from trees and blue gray mist shrouded in the distance the jungle. A large pink Cattleya orchid with bright green leaves and stems dominates the left foreground, during a Goldschwanzsylphe are seen with yellow neck and bright red tail feathers and two green - pink Amethyststernkolibris on the right side near a nest.