Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
Pommes et raisins (Apples and Grapes)
c.1879–1880
Oil on canvas, 67.6 x 89.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This is one of three tabletop still lifes depicting a basket of apples and grapes that Monet painted in 1879–80, when a spell of bad weather forced him to retreat indoors. In late November 1879, his future stepdaughter Marthe Hoschedé took note of a “painting of fruits” in progress, when she recorded that Monet was “working hard at his still lifes which are very pretty.” (MET)