Claude Monet's 'Spring Flowers' (1864), a relatively early still life, arranges a cascade of spring blossoms — peonies, hyacinths, and narcissi — against a dark ground, observed with a young Monet's precise tactile attention. Painted before his commitment to full plein-air Impressionism, the picture documents the rigorous still-life practice that underlay his later landscape breakthroughs. Oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art.

Exhibition Venue

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States