Souvenir de Mauve Vincent Van Gogh

Flowering Orchards is a series of paintings which Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh executed in Arles, in Southern France in the spring of 1888. Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 in a snowstorm; within two weeks the weather changed and the fruit trees were in blossom. Appreciating the symbolism of rebirth, Van Gogh worked with optimism and zeal on about fourteen paintings of flowering trees in the early spring. He also made paintings of flowering trees in Saint-Remy the following year, in 1889.