Peach Tree in Blossom

Catalogue numbers: F 404, JH 1391.

The very meaning of van Gogh's fruit trees is light. Even where shadows are suggested, the darker zones are like shadows cast by the blossoms themselves - as if the blossoms were a light bulb and the trunk and branches a lampstand. The present close-up of a peach tree demonstrates this in an exemplary manner: at ground level, shadows spread out on both sides.