À propos de l’œuvre
Bateaux de pêche, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Étretat · 1883 · W823
Fishing boats in Étretat W823hand painted reproduction
Fishing boats and caloges are massed on Étretat beach, their dark, green hulls standing out against the light sand. Painted in 1883, this 65.4 × 92.7 cm oil on canvas is kept at the Denver Art Museum under number 2020.568 and corresponds to Wildenstein 823.
Look at the work
The working area becomes an assembly of shells, ropes and colors
The boats fill almost the entire width of the foreground. Some are seen in profile, others at an angle; their overlaps create a dense rhythm before the beach, sea and sky open up the space at the bottom.
The greens of the caloges, the bluish blacks of the hulls and a few warm reds structure the scene. Around them, the pink sand and the pale sky attenuate the contrasts without erasing the humidity and the coastal wind.
In W823, Monet is not looking for a picturesque and empty beach: he transforms fishermen's equipment into mobile, colorful architecture deeply rooted in the place.
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 very constructed first plan
The hulls fit together like oblique planes. Their arrangement guides the gaze from left to right and prevents the beach strip from remaining flat.
Caloges characteristic of Étretat
These old boats covered and used as shelters punctuate the shore. Their green and dark volumes give the scene its local identity.
The Hamilton version of the Denver Art Museum
The format of 65.4 × 92.7 cm, the 2020 inventory.568 and Wildenstein 823 distinguish this painting from other boat studies carried out by Monet in Étretat in 1883.
Reference image
Read this specific version
A single reference image accompanies the sheet. The exact photograph from 2020.568 is provided in real WebP of 2,700 × 1,905 px, at its source definition and without artificial enlargement.
Overlapping silhouettes
The depth depends on the intersections between hulls, masts and caloges. Each covering must remain legible without drawing continuous black contours.
Greens muffled by sea air
The shelters mix bottle green, turquoise, ocher and gray. These colors should remain slightly broken to integrate with the sand and sky.
A 2700 px open image
The reference photograph shows the button on the hulls and lighter passages of the beach. Its definition allows useful zoom without artificial interpolation.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The Denver Art Museum preserves Fishing Boats, oil on canvas from 1883, 65.4 × 92.7 cm, inventory 2020.568 and Wildenstein 823.
Durand-Ruel bought the painting in 1883
The museum documents the purchase of the work from Monet by Durand-Ruel in December 1883, then its acquisition by Charles Haviland on January 5, 1884.
Frederic C. Hamilton Collection
After several American collections, the painting was acquired by Frederic C. Hamilton and donated to the Denver Art Museum in 2020.
An image placed in Open Access
The museum makes the reproduction of the work available with open access and clearly identifies the title, date, dimensions and number 2020.568.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- Version 2020.568, Wildenstein 823
- The boats and caloges are tight in the foreground
- The greens, bluish blacks and reds of the hulls
- The clear beach open to the sea
Work sheet
| Title | Fishing boats in Étretat W823 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1883 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.4 × 92.7 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Denver Art Museum, Denver, United States |
| Inventory | 2020.568 · Wildenstein 823 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This structured navy is suitable for a living room, office or dining room. A chalk wall, dark wood and bottle green, slate blue or rust accents take up the range of boats.
