A real outdoor pochade
The dimensions of 14.4 × 22.1 cm allow rapid execution in front of the pattern. The key remains direct and transitions are not smoothed.
Canvas reproduction
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Oil painting on rolled canvas, unframed. Custom size available on request.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Vétheuil · 1881 · W669
In this little pochade, the hillsides of the Seine become a dense network of blues, greens and earths. Chalky escarpments cross the center, while the distant relief closes a valley rendered by quick touches. Painted in 1881, this oil on canvas mounted on wood measures only 14.4 × 22.1 cm; it belongs to the Musée d'Orsay, is deposited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen and corresponds to Wildenstein 669.

Look at the work
The dark slope on the left descends towards light rocks in the center. The terrain then rises in several planes to a long blue ridge. The shapes are abbreviated but the valley remains perfectly readable.
The palette is limited to blue grays, muted greens, pinks and browns. The thick touches alternate small masses and oblique lines, adapted to the very reduced format of the study.
The tiny scale does not impoverish the landscape: it forces Monet to condense the relief, light and distance into a few colorful relationships.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The dimensions of 14.4 × 22.1 cm allow rapid execution in front of the pattern. The key remains direct and transitions are not smoothed.
The light accents in the center separate the slopes close to the distant hillside and give the scale of the valley.
Blue, purple and green unify the landscape, while pink and brown lands warm up the closer planes.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W669 is used in the listing and as the sole Shopify media. The best public image found measures 409 × 256 px; it remains at its native definition, without artificial enlargement.
The reproduction must respect the visible keys without inventing details absent from the small original.
These clear marks are the essential depth markers in W669.
Its horizontal line stabilizes the eventful slopes of the foreground.
Documented benchmarks
The Musée d'Orsay documents Les Coteaux near Vétheuil, oil on canvas mounted on wood from 1881, inventory RF 1948 23, deposited in Rouen and listed Wildenstein 669.
The very small size distinguishes this pochade from the large views of the Seine painted by Monet during the same period.
The work remained in the family circle of Giverny before its entry into the national collections.
The Musée d'Orsay remains the owner of RF 1948 23; the Rouen Museum of Fine Arts preserves it under number D.1952.2.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Les Coteaux near Vétheuil W669 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1881 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 14.4 × 22.1 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Rouen Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen, France |
| Inventory | RF 1948 23 · D.1952.2 · Wildenstein 669 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This intimate study is suitable for a library, entrance or office. A gray blue, taupe or olive green wall and a thin frame give presence to its format.
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