GOGH, Vincent van
(b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

Orchard in Blossom

March-April 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas, 72 x 54 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Catalogue numbers: F 552, JH 1381.

This painting belongs to a series of fourteen blossoming orchards that van Gogh painted in spring 1888, shortly after his arrival in Arles. The motif and van Gogh's stylised treatment are related to Japanese prints.