The Bay of Monaco W891b - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Monaco · 1884 · W891b

The Bay of Monaco W891bhand painted reproduction

A pink and yellow light rises over the bay; a finely rigged sailboat rests in the foreground while Monaco is reduced to a purple-blue mass, crowned with an urban silhouette. Also entitled Port of Monaco, Aurore, this oil on canvas measuring 60 × 73 cm is part of the collection of the New National Museum of Monaco under number 1993.1.1. It corresponds to Wildenstein 891b and belongs to Monet's Mediterranean campaign in 1884.

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The Bay of Monaco W891bClaude Monet · 1884
1884Dating
60 × 73 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
1993.1.1 · Wildenstein 891bInventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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The motionless sailboat and the monumental promontory meet in a bay where dawn erases details and circulates the same colors between sky and water

The rock of Monaco forms a large dark band which descends gently from right to left. On its ridge, buildings and fortifications are nothing more than small bluish teeth. The large mass is however not opaque: violets, blues and pinkish grays cross it, as if the morning air were already dissolving its relief.

The sailboat, offset to the left, can be read by its mast, its ropes and its clear hull. Around it, the touches of the water change from deep blue to orange-pink, then to pale yellow near the horizon. The sky takes up this range in more flexible gestures; the bay thus becomes a continuous surface where only the boat asserts a human scale.

The Monegasque collection gives the work the other title Port of Monaco, Aurore. This word specifies the challenge of the canvas: not a detailed topographical view, but the transformation of the port, the rock and the boats by the first light.

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.

01

The promontory is a silhouette before being a city

Monet reduces architecture to a discontinuous ridge. This simplification allows the purple mass to weigh in the composition without distracting attention from color changes in the sky and water.

02

The sailboat fixes the space with a few lines

The mast and stays cut the horizontals of the bay. Their fineness contrasts with the compact rock and provides a delicate measurement of distance as well as a stopping point amidst reflections.

03

Dawn connects all surfaces

Roses, yellows, blues and purples circulate from the sky to the sea then to the promontory. The boundaries remain legible, but no area is isolated by an immutable local color.

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The single image exactly represents the 1993 inventory.1.1. The reference file measures 1600 × 1290 px; it remains at its native definition, without artificial enlargement, then is encoded in real WebP.

Composition01

Preserve the off-center position of the sailboat

It should not become a central subject or be enlarged. Its small scale balances the rock and maintains the impression of open space in the bay.

Color02

Keep warm gradient near horizon

The very pale yellows and pinks make the blue-purple mass of Monaco breathe. A light that is too white or too saturated would remove the precise time suggested by the title Aurore.

Matter03

Keeping architecture in silhouette

The promontory buildings do not require added details. Their irregular line is enough to identify the site and must remain subordinate to the atmosphere.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Monegasque documentation presents The Bay of Monaco, also known as the Port of Monaco, Aurore, oil on canvas of 60 × 73 cm, inventory 1993.1.1 and Wildenstein catalog 891b.

Campaign01

A motif of the Riviera discovered during the stay of 1884

After Bordighera, Monet worked along the coast between Menton, Cap Martin, Roquebrune and Monaco. He seeks a Mediterranean light that he considers more difficult to translate than that of Normandy.

Title02

The Bay of Monaco, also called Port of Monaco, Aurore

The double title brings together the place and time. He explains why the rock and buildings remain in silhouette while the colors of the water and the sky become the real subject.

Collection03

New National Museum of Monaco, number 1993.1.1

The painting belongs to the Monegasque public collection. It is referenced in the catalog of the Monet exhibition in full light and associated with the Wildenstein number 891b.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.

  • Wildenstein version 891b and inventory 1993.1.1
  • The complementary title Port of Monaco, Aurore
  • The off-center sailboat and its vertical rigging
  • The blue-purple silhouette of the rock of Monaco

Work sheet

Title The Bay of Monaco W891b
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1884
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60 × 73 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation New National Museum of Monaco, Monaco
Inventory 1993.1.1 · Wildenstein 891b
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the presentation and references of the work - Collection of the New National Museum of Monaco · 1993.1.1

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This horizontal bay is suitable above a sofa, bed or base unit. A powder pink, mist blue or ivory wall and a walnut or smoked oak frame reinforce the softness of dawn.

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