Apples and Grapes by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2023

Title: Apples and Grapes

Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

Date: 1879–80

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 26 5/8 x 35 1/4 in. (67.6 x 89.5 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Henry R. Luce, 1957

Accession Number: 57.183

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."

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437130