Enchanted by the miraculous but ephemeral image of the flowering tree, Grigorescu covered in a white snow part of the canvas surface, reserving only a sample of the clear sky – the upper left corner of the painting, and some blue piercing between the branches. He did not, as he had before, pursue other forms and volumes, but rather the extravaganza offered by the show of Nature.
Pictorial matter is placed in brief, rapid strokes, from the tip of the brush, as in an impressionist or pointillist technique exercise. The discreet presence of the sketched female character, whom we barely discover under the blooming tree, in the airy, rich grass, supports the pantheistic conception of the artist who declared the season of the rebirth of nature to be his favourite time to paint outdoors.
The work can be dated to the 9th decade, if we take into account the stylistic and thematic concordances with Impressionism and Pointillism.
It is catalogued in the file of researcher Remus Niculescu.
Orig.: Collection of painter Nuni Dona, Bucharest.
