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Spring Flowers

Claude MonetLinkedCulture matchlcp-86a26a40cf9a

Date: 1864
Medium: oil on fabric
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 130391

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This early work reveal's Monet's fascination with capturing the transitory effects that became the primary focus of his later innovations. Painted with almost scientific accuracy, this still life has a freshness and immediacy derived partly from its composition. Isolated against a dark background, the fully mature peonies, potted hydrangeas, and basketed lilacs spill downward and outward from the geraniums at the rear. At the same time, Monet's energetic brushwork conveys the sparkling play of light on leaves and petals. Monet is quoted as saying, "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers . " He painted this work in 1864, the first productive year of his career.

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Credit line: Gift of the Hanna Fund
Provenance: The artist's elder brother, Léon Pascal Monet [1836-1917], Rouen, France | ?-1953: (Wildenstein & Col., New York, NY, April 17, 1953, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1953-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH