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The melon
(c. 1880)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
- Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Artwork Details
Felton Bequest, 1926
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Level 2, NGV International
Exhibited Loan Exhibition of the Burrell Collection, National Gallery of London, Millbank, 1924, no. 36; Edouard Manet 1832–83, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966–67, no. 100.
Frame
The reframing of The melon (c.1860’s or 1880) followed on from the work on The House at Rueil.
The former framing was Louis XV revival, the default framing of many French paintings of the second half of the C19th as they changed hands.
The proposal to reframe this painting and The ship’s deck arose in April 2008. The reframing is based on images of Manets paintings in their frames published in MANET RACONTÉ PAR LUI-MÊME, 1926, the posthumous Manet retrospective of 1884.
Original nineteenth century French frames that would suit both this picture and The Ship’s deck, were on offer from London.
For The melon the proposal was for an original nineteenth century cassetta style frame.
The frame arrived in March 2010 and was fitted to the painting.
The painting was cleaned and restored in 1997.
Frame Details
- Framemaker
- Unknown - 19th century
- Date
- late nineteenth century
- Materials
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wood, composition, gold leaf