Peach_Trees_in_Blossom
Peach Trees in Blossom
Painting by Vincent van Gogh
Peach Trees in Blossom is an 1899 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art.[1] The painting depicts a field with peach trees on the outskirts of Arles with the Alpilles mountains in the background.[1] The painting was intended as a homage to Japanese landscape prints which influenced Van Gogh.[1] It was created a few months after he had severed his ear and during a mentally unstable period in which he was still a patient at the men's hospital in Arles.[1]
Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo van Gogh in April 1889 about his work on the painting, and subsequently included a sketch of the work in a letter to Paul Signac sent on 10 April 1889.[1]