Apple Blossoms, 1873, Oil on canvas, 23 1/8 x 33 3/8 in. (58. 7 x 84. 8 cm), Paintings, Charles-Francois Daubigny (French, Paris 1817?1878 Paris), The critic Theophile Gautier extolled Daubigny's landscapes as 'pieces of nature cut out and set into golden frames. ' The artist first painted flowering orchards about 1857, reprising the motif almost every spring