A foreground designed as an open curtain
Pine and brush occupy a large area, but their arrangement leaves a central passage to the city. This opening gives the impression of a view discovered from the plateau.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Antibes · 1888 · W1172
From the Notre-Dame plateau, the fortified city of Antibes stands out at the edge of turquoise water, in front of a pink and blue mountain range. A dark pine and colorful brush frame the bay. Painted in 1888, this 65.7 × 81.3 cm oil on canvas is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under number 39.672 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1172.

Look at the work
The trunk of the pine rises in the left third and its foliage extends towards the center, without masking Antibes. The city forms a light strip beyond the bay; its twin towers and ramparts emerge in small touches of yellow, pink and blue.
The foreground mixes green, purple, ocher and red in tight vegetation. The water changes from turquoise to pale blue, then the mountains dissolve into cold roses. Pine provides the only big dark accent and stabilizes the whole.
Monet reduces the buildings to a luminous rhythm: Antibes remains recognizable, but the true architecture of the painting rests on the pine, the bay and the successive layers of atmosphere.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Pine and brush occupy a large area, but their arrangement leaves a central passage to the city. This opening gives the impression of a view discovered from the plateau.
The towers, walls and roofs are built by thick, clear touches. The low contrast with the mountains retains the vibrant warmth of the Mediterranean air.
The foreground is dark and saturated, the bay lighter, the mountains almost pastel. Monet thus organizes the depth by chromatic intensities rather than by detailed drawing.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W1172 is used throughout the file. The real WebP measures 1,600 × 1,288 px, the best reliable public definition identified for this version of the MFA Boston, preserved without artificial enlargement.
Its trunk is not in the center. This asymmetry maintains the view of Antibes and leads the gaze through the branches.
The city's two verticals are important for identifying the site, while remaining integrated into the light strip of the buildings.
The distance should not be neutralized to gray. These cold and pale colors give the light of Antibes its particular softness.
Documented benchmarks
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston preserves Antibes Seen from the Plateau Notre-Dame, oil on canvas from 1888, 65.7 × 81.3 cm, inventory 39,672 and Wildenstein 1172.
The museum highlights the delicate range of Mediterranean landscapes from 1888. Monet uses this softened light to bring together city, water and mountains.
The urban silhouette returns in several paintings from the living room. Here, it is observed from the Notre-Dame plateau and framed by the vegetation in the foreground.
The work enters the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under number 39.672. It constitutes version W1172, distinct from another close view cataloged W1171.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Antibes, view of the Notre-Dame plateau W1172 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1888 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.7 × 81.3 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Inventory | 39,672 · Wildenstein 1172 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This balanced view is suitable for a living room, bedroom or dining room. A pale blue, sage green or powder pink wall and a discreet frame extend its Mediterranean palette.
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