Landscape of the Creuse, in spring

Another undated Creuse landscape, this canvas of the Creuse in spring exists without collection attribution, placing it among the private holdings or the untraced works in Guillaumin's output. Spring in the Creuse valley was a specific visual event: after the grey and ochre austerity of winter, the valley's vegetation burst into the saturated greens and the river's volume increased with snowmelt from the Massif Central. The spring subject gave Guillaumin the freshest, most saturated greens of the year, set against the warm ochre-grey of the granite that never changed colour with the seasons. His spring Crozant work forms a subset within the broader Crozant series, documenting the valley at the moment of maximum vegetative energy.

Oil on canvas with handling appropriate to the fresh, saturated colours of spring. The young foliage of spring in a river valley is among the most intensely green subjects in European landscape — Guillaumin's saturated palette was ideally suited to capturing this chromatic peak. The undated and uncollected status prevents precise technical comparison with documented works, but the subject's likely chromatic range would align with his brightest Crozant canvases.