![Vincent van Gogh - The Flowering Orchard [1888]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5602/15521890071_d07b0c1d81_o.jpg)
This painting belongs to a series of fourteen blossoming orchards that Van Gogh painted in spring 1888, shortly after his arrival in Arles, the Provençal town in the south of France where he worked from February 1888 until May 1889. The present example, which includes a scythe and rake, is one of only two orchards that allude to human presence or labour. The motif and Van Gogh's stylised treatment are related to Japanese prints.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 53.3 cm]