Claude Monet - Fruit Basket with Apples and Grapes 1879

Fruit Basket with Apples and Grapes 1879
Fruit Basket with Apples and Grapes
1879 67x89cm Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
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."