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Le Bassin d’Argenteuil avec un voilier W331 par Claude Monet, 1874, National Gallery of Ireland

The Argenteuil Basin with a sailboat W331 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Solitary sailboat and autumn shore · National Gallery of Ireland

The Argenteuil Basin with a W331 sailboathand painted reproduction

A single white sailboat slides in the distance over the Argenteuil basin. On the right, an autumn bank descends to the water in a mass of pink, ocher and green; on the left, the sky and the Seine blend into silvery blues. Monet reserves most of the canvas for clouds and reflections, making a very simple subject a study of movement and light.

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The Argenteuil Basin with a W331 sailboatClaude Monet · 1874
1874Dating
55 × 65 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
NGI.852 · Wildenstein 331Inventory
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The sky and its reflections surround an almost tiny sailboat

The boat is placed near the left edge, a short distance from the horizon. Its cream sail stands out against a pale sky and its hull can only be held in a few touches. In the center, tiny masts and constructions indicate the town of Argenteuil without interrupting the vast atmospheric continuity.

The right bank advances at a point and contrasts its warm vegetation with the cold blue of the water. Horizontal touches of white, blue, mauve and orange fragment the Seine. They take on the colors of the sky and the trees without producing a symmetrical reflection: the surface thus keeps its lapping.

The sail gives the scale of the scene, but the experience of the painting lies above all in the immense mobile continuity of the sky and the water.

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

A composition shared between two expanses

The sky and reflections occupy most of the canvas, as the National Gallery of Ireland points out. The shore and the boat are landmarks measured inside this large luminous envelope.

02

Complementary colors in separate touches

Cold blues and oranges on the bank respond to each other, while purples connect the sky to the water. The marks remain visible and juxtaposed so that light seems to arise from the color itself.

03

A plant diagonal facing the small sail

The bank descends from the upper right corner towards the center. The sail, the only clear triangular shape on the left, responds to it on a much smaller scale and balances the composition without freezing it.

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The visual corresponds to the Argenteuil Basin with a sailboat from 1874, inventory NGI.852 and Wildenstein number 331. The digitization of the National Gallery of Ireland is offered in a real WebP of 3,000 × 2,501 px.

Composition01

The sailboat remains distant and slightly irregular

Its sail is not a geometric white triangle. Creams, cold roses and a few blue shadows give it volume while maintaining its small size in the pool.

Color02

The bank combines autumn and light

The foliage mixes orange, pink, ocher, brown and green. Their edges dissolve in the air and in the reflection; a continuous contour would artificially isolate the bank.

Matter03

The reflections are short and changeable

The horizontal keys become denser near the foreground and vary in length. They copy neither each cloud nor each tree, but reflect constantly displaced water.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Painted in 1874, this oil on canvas measures 55 × 65 cm. It is kept in the National Gallery of Ireland under the inventory NGI.852 and listed as Wildenstein 331.

Argenteuil01

The river observed from a floating workshop

Between 1871 and 1878, Monet lived in Argenteuil and equipped a boat in a workshop. This device allows him to paint the Seine, its banks and sailboats from viewpoints located directly on the water.

187402

The year of the first impressionist exhibition

The work was executed the year Monet and his friends organized their first group exhibition in Paris. Its broken touch and complementary colors embody their search for an immediate visual sensation.

Provenance03

Edward Martyn's legacy in 1924

The painting entered the National Gallery of Ireland by the bequest of Edward Martyn in 1924. It has since carried the NGI.852 inventory and constitutes one of the major impressionist landscapes of the Dublin collection.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Keep the sailboat small and off-center to the left.
  • Respect the diagonal tip of the autumnal bank.
  • Circulate the blues of the sky throughout the water surface.
  • Juxtapose complementary colors without standardizing them.

Work sheet

Title The Argenteuil Basin with a W331 sailboat
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1874
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 55 × 65 cm
Orientation Horizontal close to the square
Conservation National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Inventory NGI.852 · Wildenstein 331
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - National Gallery of Ireland - Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, NGI.852

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This clear and peaceful view is suitable for a living room, bedroom or office. A blond, off-white or gray blue oak frame accompanies the Seine; an ivory, linen or mist blue wall brings out the warm foliage.

The Argenteuil Basin with a W331 sailboat, painted for your interior

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