Flowering Plum Trees (Vétheuil, les pruniers en fleurs), 1879 by Claude Monet

Flowering Plum Trees, painted by Claude Monet in 1879 depicts a small orchard in full spring bloom on the hillside above Vétheuil, its blossoming branches framing a cluster of village rooftops beneath a patchwork of cultivated fields. Monet painted the scene during a difficult season marked by the illness and death of his first wife, Camille, lending the delicate brushwork an unusually tender quality. The canvas belongs to the loosely handled, atmospheric body of work that marks Monet’s maturing Impressionist style in the years before Giverny.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1879.

Flowering Plum Trees (Vétheuil, les pruniers en fleurs), 1879 by Claude Monet. Spring Blossom Wall Art Canvas Print.