Nº 83
Reading edition
Charles François Daubigny FRENCH: 1817-1878
SPRINGTIME
Height, 26 inches; length, 37 inches
In the foreground is the corner of an orchard with several apple trees in full fruit, dominated by a tall beech, which rises with rounded top high against a cloudy sky. On the right the orchard is bounded by a depression which is filled with flowering shrubs, and beyond, the view extends across a cultivated field to a hedge in which stands a poplar and another tree. The light in the sky is concentrated near the middle of the composition, and sunlight falls strongly upon the near foreground, the distant cultivated field, and gleams upon the wings of the birds soaring high above the earth.
Inscribed at the lower right, Vente Daubigny.