Springtime (Claude Monet)

Springtime
The Reader
ArtistClaude Monet
Year1872
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions50 cm × 65.5 cm (20 in × 25.8 in)
LocationWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

Springtime or The Reader is an 1872 painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. It depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated reading beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held by the Walters Art Museum.