Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Claude Monet

1869

Oil on canvas, Oil, Canvas

J. Paul Getty Museum

A still life painting depicts a large bouquet of colorful flowers in a patterned vase, accompanied by a basket of apples and scattered fruits and grapes on a white tablecloth. A still life painting depicts a large bouquet of colorful flowers in a patterned vase, accompanied by a basket of apples and scattered fruits and grapes on a white tablecloth. Although painted in his studio, this still life shows the influence of the outdoor experiments that Claude Monet undertook in the summer and fall of 1869, while he was living at Bougival on the Seine River. His exercises in different painting techniques are seen in the way he softened the outlines of forms and the manner in which he explored the descriptive possibilities of brushstrokes: broad and flat in the tablecloth, sketchy in the apples, and short and de