aestheticgoddess: Claude Monet, The Mount Riboudet in Rouen at…
Saturday, May 3rd, 2014Claude Monet, The Mount Riboudet in Rouen at Spring, 1872
By 1872, when Monet painted The Hill, the holes had been filled in and the houses were above-ground. It was still pretty, of course, but I missed the tree.
Spring surpassed his wildest hopes. His trees began to sprout and grow, as if time was in a hurry and wished to make one year do for twenty. In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. It was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighbourhood. In after years, as it grew in grace and beauty, it was known far and wide and people would come long journeys to see it: the only mallorn west of the Mountains and east of the Sea, and one of the finest in the world.
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