| Springtime | |
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| Artist | Claude Monet |
| Year | 1872 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 50 cm × 65.5 cm (20 in × 25.8 in) |
| Location | Walters 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.