Detail of Spring Fruit Trees in Bloom by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Title: Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom)

Date: 1873

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 39 5/8 in. (62.2 x 100.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Livingston Willard, 1926

Accession Number: 26.186.1

On View

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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.

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