Year 1872 Artist Claude Monet Periods Impressionism, Modern art | Medium Oil on canvas Created 1872–1872 Media Canvas, Paint, Oil paint | |
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Dimensions 50 cm × 65.5 cm (20 in × 25.8 in) Location Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Similar Claude Monet artwork, Oil paintings, Impressionist artwork | ||
Acrylic landscape speed painting springtime wild turkeys
Springtime is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet. It depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held by the Walters Art Museum.
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- Acrylic landscape speed painting springtime wild turkeys
- Springtime in paris painting lesson
- History
- Composition
- Off the Wall
- Exhibition history
- References
Springtime in paris painting lesson
History
In this painting entitled Springtime, Claude Monet uses his first wife, Camille Doncieux, as the model. Camille and Claude Monet were married in 1870, before this time she had been his mistress and served as a model for Monet's figurative paintings of the 1860s and 1870s. It is said that Camille possessed unusual talent as a model and was also used by Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.
Late in the year 1871, Monet and his family settled in Argenteuil, a village Northwest of Paris. The village was a popular resort for urban pleasure-seekers. Colleagues of Monet frequently joined him and the village became associated with Impressionism. In the spring of 1872, Monet painted a number of canvases in his garden, often showing Camille and Alfred Sisley's companion, Adélaïde-Eugénie Lescouezec.
Springtime was on display at an exhibition organized by the Impressionists at Durand Ruel's Paris Gallery, from March 30 to April 30, 1876. Monet exhibited 18 works, for which 6 of these works Camille had posed. During this exhibition, Springtime was given the more generic title of Woman Reading.
Monet's second wife, Alice Hoschedé, ordered the complete destruction of pictures and mementos from Camille's life with Monet, therefore, Camille's image almost solely survives on the basis of Monet's paintings.
Composition
In this composition, Camille is seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. Her face and form are in close focus unlike later depictions which portray her as older and far less attractive. Sunlight peaks through the trees, creating patches of light on the ground and on her muslin dress. The painting represents an enchanting scene of domestic life.
Off the Wall
In 2012, Springtime was featured in Off the Wall, an open-air exhibition on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. A reproduction of the painting – the original is part of the Walters Art Museum collection – will be on display at the Cylburn Arboretum. The National Gallery in London began the concept of bringing art out of doors in 2007 and the Detroit Institute of Art introduced the concept in the U.S.. The Off the Wall reproductions of the Walters' paintings are done on weather-resistant vinyl and include a description of the painting and a QR code for smart phones.