The Art of the Melon I

So what better start for this our little homage to the Wondrous Fruit (WF) than with some art? Art with capital letters, mind you.
Today, I am honoured to present you with two delightful still-lifes by Impressionists Edouard Manet and Claude Oscar Monet.
The painting above is Manet's Still Life with Melon and Peaches (1866, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA).
Below [we are afraid to acknowledge the author of these lines is still not particularly skillful with html, and has fretted over the position of the picture for too long to care any longer] we have Monet's Still Life with Melon, slightly later in time (1872, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal) and presenting a similar emphasis on peaches and grapes in spite of their absence from the work's title.

Alas, such exquisite beauty! A source of consolation for the long yearly absence of the WF *sigh*