The Luncheon

The artwork

Monet sat his family down to lunch on a canvas more than two metres high, as large as those then reserved for history paintings, and the Paris Salon turned it down. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• Camille and little Jean at the table, a guest and the maid.
• The white tablecloth, the bread and the fruit: a domestic scene full of light.
• A gift for anyone who loves the table and family life.

In 1868 Monet painted an ordinary lunch: his partner Camille and their son Jean, just over a year old, sitting at the round table, with a guest and a maid. But he did it on a grand scale: the canvas measures more than two metres in height and one and a half in width, the size then given to history paintings, with kings and battles.

In 1870 Monet submitted it to the Salon, the great official exhibition in Paris, and the picture was rejected. Four years later he showed it at the first Impressionist exhibition, organised by the artists themselves, outside the Salon. In 1910 the city of Frankfurt bought it for its museum.

The original is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

In a dining room or a kitchen it brings the warmth of a family table. It is a gift for anyone who loves having friends round.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 40 x 60 cm (15.7 x 23.6 in)
With frame: 42 x 62 cm (16.5 x 24.4 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass