Claude Monet French, 1840 – 1926
Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated (lower left): 73 Claude Monet
This work was painted in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine northwest of Paris that was a favorite gathering place of the Impressionists. The pastel colors of spring and the clear light provided Monet with a pretext for an almost purely chromatic interpretation of nature.
Bequest of Mary Livingston Willard, 1926
26.186.1
From the placard: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
W 271 — 1873
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