Basket of Fruit

Caravaggio

Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) — Basket of Fruit · Caravaggio · c. 1599.

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Unframed at this size — framing is available on 16×24 and 24×36.

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About this work

Artist: Caravaggio (1571–1610)
Year: c. 1599
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 46 × 64.5 cm
Collection: Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Movement: Baroque

A wicker basket of apples, pears, figs, quinces and grapes, with their leaves, sits on a ledge against a plain pale wall, its rim projecting just over the edge toward the viewer. The fruit is at the turn: an apple is worm-eaten, the leaves are curling and spotted, the grapes dusty. Caravaggio painted it in Rome around 1599, and it is one of the earliest independent still lifes in Italian art; he is recorded as saying it took as much skill to paint flowers as figures. It was owned by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who gave it to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, the library he founded in Milan, in 1607, and it has been there ever since. The eye-level viewpoint and the empty wall give a basket of fruit the gravity of a portrait.

This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Restored in-house from the original painting — cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 18×12, 24×16 in • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The image fills the print at the painting's own proportions; nothing is trimmed to fit a frame.

Is Basket of Fruit in the public domain?

Yes. Caravaggio (1571–1610) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Basket of Fruit painted, and in what medium?

Basket of Fruit dates from c. 1599 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 46 × 64.5 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) — Basket of Fruit · Caravaggio · c. 1599. This is a fine-art reproduction of a public-domain masterwork, shown whole and uncropped on a gallery ground, printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Fine Art Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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