Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine
Claude Monet
c. 1862/1863
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 39.69 × 59.85 cm (15 5/8 × 23 9/16 in.) framed: 55.25 × 75.88 × 6.99 cm (21 3/4 × 29 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
2014.18.32
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...