À propos de l’œuvre
Les pommiers en fleurs, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · around 1899 -1900 · Giverny · W1621
Apple trees in bloom in Giverny W1621hand painted reproduction
Apple trees laden with white and pink flowers cover almost the entire sky. Their red-brown trunks frame an alley that extends from the lower right towards a light area in the center. On the ground, touches of red, blue and yellow transform the Giverny garden into a colorful carpet without erasing its depth.
Look at the work
The path passes through a flowering orchard where branches fill the space like a vault
The large trunk on the right forms the main anchor. It rises diagonally, divides into red branches and joins those of the trees on the left above the path. The flowers are painted in small touches of white, pink and pale blue which allow fragments of green and turquoise sky to circulate.
The pink path starts in the lower right corner then narrows towards the center. On each side, the flowerbeds mix bright green, red, purple, yellow and white. Monet varies the size and direction of the keys to distinguish the dense foreground from the more diffused light at the bottom of the garden.
The perspective of the path gives firm depth to an area almost entirely covered with flowers, leaves and branches.
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 vault of branches without decorative design
The red and brown branches change thickness and sometimes disappear under the flowers. They must remain irregular to build the volume of the trees without forming a fixed pattern.
A pink alley that organizes depth
The path widens sharply downward and cools as it moves away. Its design must remain legible under the colorful covers of the garden.
Flowers suggested by temperatures
White, pink, blue, red and yellow are distributed in short touches. Reproducing each flower as an isolated shape would cause the general vibration of the orchard to lose.
Details and visual documents
Observe the material and the exact version
The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.
The actual photograph at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art measures 9,384 × 8,820 px. The main view has been reduced to 5,000 × 4,699 px to stay below the Shopify image limit, without any enlargement. Native details each measure 2,600 × 2,409 px and remain below the Shopify image limit, without any enlargement. Native details each measure 2,600 × 2,400 px and all three files are true WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
These markers bring together concordant information from the catalog raisonné and the photograph documented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Apple trees in bloom in Giverny, Wildenstein 1621
The work is dated around 1899 -1900 and measures 90 × 92 cm. The open documentation identifies it as an oil on canvas kept at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and links it to number 1621 of Monet's catalog raisonné.
A garden transformed into an open-air workshop
Based in Giverny since 1883, Monet gradually organized the plantings around his house. In this canvas, the garden is not a simple botanical decoration: the path, the growth of the trees and the masses of flowers become the elements of a very constructed composition.
A real photograph of 9,384 × 8,820 px
The high-definition source was photographed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and made available by Anagoria on Wikimedia Commons. It allows you to observe the key, colors and almost square format with much more precision than the old 2000 px file.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- Wildenstein 1621 identification and 90 × 92 cm format
- The actual photograph of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as a reference
- The pink alley kept visible under the profusion of flowers
- The red-brown branches preserved irregular among the flowers
Work sheet
| Title | Apple trees in bloom in Giverny W1621 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | around 1899 -1900 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 90 × 92 cm |
| Orientation | Almost square |
| Conservation | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 1621 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Earth pink, fresh green, bluish white, red brown and purple give this reproduction a very colorful spring presence. The almost square format is suitable for a dining room, entrance or living room, with cream, sage or powder pink walls.
