À propos de l’œuvre
Champ de coquelicots à Giverny, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · around 1890 · Giverny · W1255
Poppy field W1255hand painted reproduction
A carpet of red and pink poppies extends in front of a row of trees dominated by a very narrow poplar tree, under a vast blue sky punctuated with clouds. This oil on canvas measuring 60.5 × 92 cm, painted around 1890 in Giverny, is kept at the Hermitage Museum under the number Оoult-9004.
Look at the work
The wind undulates a field almost without detail
The field occupies almost the lower half and unfolds like a wide colored band. The tree line remains low, except for the central poplar which almost reaches the top of the sky. This contrast gives a strong vertical to an otherwise very horizontal composition.
The flowers are suggested by a multitude of touches of red, coral, pink and mauve placed on greens. The sky combines several blues with pale pink clouds; on the horizon, the trees mix green, ultramarine and purple in order to remain distinct without outline.
In W1255, Monet renounces botanical detail to paint the collective movement of the field, like a colored surface pushed by the wind.
Composition, touch and light
What Monet builds behind the impression of snapshot
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
A field treated as a moving surface
The Hermitage notice emphasizes the mass of flowers swept sideways. The keys do not describe each poppy: their common direction makes the ripple of the wind felt.
Poplar as a single axis
The central tree, tall and thin, cuts the sky and prevents the composition from being reduced to three horizontal bands. Its irregular silhouette must remain light despite its structural role.
A painting from the Morozov collection
Before entering the Hermitage in 1948, the work belonged to Ivan Morozov and then to the State Museum of New Western Art. Its current inventory is ʻonds-9004.
Reference image
Read this specific version
Only one image is used: the documented high definition scanning of version ̄oult-9004, converted to a true 3,000 × 1,925 px WebP from a 4,943 × 3,171 px PNG source, without artificial enlargement.
A depth without path or character
The retreat comes from the change in scale of the keys, the strip of trees and the blue relief on the right. No path leads the eye; color alone organizes space.
A distributed red, never continuous
Poppies appear between greens, blues and yellows. These intervals must be maintained so that the field breathes and the reds remain luminous.
A different material between sky and meadow
The sky receives wider and more melted passages; the field is built by small, numerous touches. This opposition reflects the calm air above moving vegetation.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The Hermitage Museum documents Poppy Field, oil on canvas circa 1890, 60.5 × 92 cm, inventory ʻonds-9004 and Wildenstein 1255.
The fields around Giverny
After settling in Giverny, Monet regularly observed the crops located around his house. Poppies give it a pattern where the color changes with the wind and distance.
Around 1890
The Hermitage retains an approximate dating around 1890. The catalog raisonné classifies the canvas under the number W1255, in a group of fields painted during this period.
General Staff Building, room 403
The canvas is presented in the collections of French painting from the 19th and 20th centuries of the Hermitage Museum, in the General Staff building.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version ʻonds-9004, Wildenstein 1255
- The original format of 60.5 × 92 cm
- The central poplar tree that crosses the sky
- The fragmented reds of the field on a green and blue base
Work sheet
| Title | Poppy field W1255 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | around 1890 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60.5 × 92 cm |
| Orientation | Panoramic horizontal |
| Conservation | Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Inventory | ʻoult-9004 · Wildenstein 1255 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This large horizontal format is suitable above a sofa, sideboard or bed. A warm white wall, oak and some sky blue or earthy pink textiles extend the palette while letting the poppies dominate.
