Claude Monet - Apple Trees in Bloom 1873

Apple Trees in Bloom 1873
Apple Trees in Bloom
1873 62x100cm Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Monet made this work in the vicinity of his home in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine northwest of Paris that was a favorite gathering place of the Impressionists. Sources previously referred to the scene as Plum Blossoms and Apples Trees in Bloom, but the type of tree cannot be determined from the flurry of white buds evoked by the artist. The pastel shades of spring and the clear light inspired him to represent nature almost purely in terms of color. This was the first painting by Monet to enter the Museum’s collection, via bequest in 1926.