Spring at Vétheuil
1881
Claude Monet captures the quiet, chilly arrival of spring along the Seine River in this dreamy 1881 landscape. Bare, skeletal trees line the muddy banks while tall, slender poplars stand like sentinels on the right, their reflections shimmering in the cool water. The distant village church peeks through the misty atmosphere, painted with the loose, rapid brushstrokes that defined his Impressionist style. Monet lived in Vétheuil during a particularly difficult period of his life, yet he still managed to find breathtaking beauty in the changing seasons of the French countryside.
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