Two bottles, a carafe, drinking glass, plate, knife, and loaf of bread are arranged on a table covered with a white cloth in this horizontal still-life painting. The narrow table angles from the lower left toward the wall to our right. The bright white cloth is slightly rumpled, and the shadows are painted with silvery gray. A clear glass, square-bodied bottle holding amber-brown liquid extends off the left edge of the canvas. Next to it, a long-necked carafe filled halfway with clear liquid has a low, wide belly. The black handle of the knife angles toward us in the lower left corner, the…
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Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

c. 1862/1863

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
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.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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