Melon and Tomatoes, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1903, gathers a ripe melon and a cluster of red tomatoes on a softly draped surface, their full forms catching warm reflections against a muted background. The brushwork is feathered and assured, the palette built on saturated reds, golden ochres, and the cool greens of foliage and rind in the manner of his late still lifes. By this point Renoir was working from his home and studio in the south of France, and intimate kitchen subjects became a sustained strand of his late practice. The picture distills a simple seasonal abundance into a luminous Impressionist composition.