Springtime (Le Printemps), painted by Claude Monet in 1872 portrays the artist’s first wife, Camille, seated on the grass in a billowing pink and white dress as she reads beneath a canopy of lilacs. Dappled sunlight filters through the leaves, scattering flecks of gold and green across her gown and the flowering lawn of the family garden at Argenteuil. Also known as The Reader, the picture was shown in the second Impressionist exhibition of 1876 and now belongs to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1872.
Springtime (Le Printemps), 1872 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Garden Portrait Wall Art Canvas Print.