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Nature morte au melon
Still Life with Melon
Claude Monet · 1872
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
About this painting
Painted at Argenteuil in 1872, this still life applies Monet's outdoor light studies to a tabletop of melon, peaches, and grapes — a rare foray away from landscape that prefigures his melon still lifes of 1879-80.
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
53 × 72 cm (20.9 × 28.3 in)
Painted at
Argenteuil, France
Current location
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
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