Description
Two green apples brighten Édouard Manet’s letter to Eugène Maus, their rounded watercolor forms sharing the sheet with lines of handwritten text. Set near the upper right, the fruit provides a vivid counterpoint to the darker ink and the pale, folded paper. The letter becomes both a personal communication and a small study in the pleasures of color and ordinary objects.
Dated August 2, 1880, it belongs to the illustrated correspondence Manet sent during his summer stay at Bellevue. Fruit and flowers from the garden entered these informal exchanges, bringing the habits of a painter into the act of writing to friends. Here the apples do not need an elaborate setting: their freshness and simple placement give the page a warmth that complements its conversational character.
Read our guide to giclée prints, browse more Édouard Manet prints, or explore Madame Edouard Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906).
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