1872
oil
canvas
From the collection of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Still Life with Melon is a 1872 oil by Claude Monet, a Impressionism work, held at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
This painting shows a still life of a melon and grapes on a table. The melon is yellow and green, and the grapes are green. There is a plate with blue designs behind the melon. The table is covered with a white cloth. The painting is done in oil paint, and the colors are muted. The light source is coming from the right side of the painting, which creates shadows on the left side. The artist who created this painting is Claude Monet.
Oscar-Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840, and raised from the age of five in Le Havre, where he began selling charcoal caricatures as a teenager.
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