Apples and Grapes
Claude Monet
1880
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 66.5 × 82.5 cm (26 3/16 × 32 1/2 in.); Framed: 88 × 103.9 × 10.2 cm (34 5/8 × 40 7/8 × 4 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingnineteenth century19th centurypaintChicago World's FairscanvasImpressionismCentury of ProgressApplesoil on canvasfrenchtableclothTableoil paint (paint)Grapespainting (image making)painting techniquestablesstill lifeFruitworld's fairsoil paintingfoodeuropean painting
About
Claude Monet probably painted this and other still lifes in 1879–80, knowing that they would be more readily marketable than his landscapes. In Apples and Grapes, however, he employed the complexity of color, light, and texture found in his most Impressionist landscapes. This is particularly evident in the extensive cloth surface—the play of light on the horizontal brushstrokes (indicating the folds in the tablecloth) recalls earlier canvases in which Monet used similar short horizontals of variegated colors to suggest water rippling in the sunlight.
