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Le Bloc étude de rochers dans la Creuse W1228 par Claude Monet
  • Le Bloc étude de rochers dans la Creuse W1228 par Claude Monet
  • Le Bloc étude de rochers dans la Creuse W1228 par Claude Monet
The Block, study of rocks in the Creuse W1228 - Claude Monet

The Block, study of rocks in the Creuse W1228 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Fresselines · 1889 · W1228

The Block, study of rocks in the Creuse W1228hand painted reproduction

A red and purple rocky outcrop fills almost the entire field, dotted with dark blocks and dominated by a thin strip of blue sky. Painted in the Creuse in 1889, The Block is a 72.4 × 91.4 cm oil on canvas preserved in the Royal Collection at Clarence House and listed as Wildenstein 1228.

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The Block, study of rocks in the Creuse W1228Claude Monet · 1889
1889Dating
72.4 × 91.4 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
RCIN 406495 · Wildenstein 1228Inventory
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Look at the work

The rock becomes a portrait of matter and light

Monet places the viewer facing the slope, without rivers or distant horizons. The ridge rises gently from left to right; a few branches and clouds appear only in the upper band.

Burnt orange, red, purple, green and blue fragment the rock. The light outcrops are opposed to almost black hollows, but each shadow remains colored. The thick touch gives the relief an almost tactile presence.

The framing refuses the panorama: the rock mass advances to the edge of the canvas and imposes its material as the main subject.

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 radically close composition

The slope occupies more than four-fifths of the format. This choice removes the usual landmarks from the landscape and focuses the eye on terrain accidents.

02

Rocks built without visible preparatory drawing

The volumes arise from the opposition between hot and cold touches. Orange and ocher advance; purple, blue and green dig the cracks.

03

A decisive step before the big series

The Royal Collection recalls that the twenty-four paintings created around Fresselines announce the methodical series of Meules, Poplars and Rouen Cathedral.

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Only one exact image of W1228 is used. The real WebP measures 1049 × 829 px and maintains the best reliable public definition, without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

Preserve the orange-red cast

It must remain crossed by greens and purples. A uniformly brown rock would remove the luminous vibration which makes up the identity of W1228.

Color02

Keep the strip of sky very narrow

It gives the scale and inclination of the ridge. Enlarging it would transform the painting into a panoramic landscape, contrary to Monet's framing.

Matter03

Respect the variety of blocks

Each projection has a different temperature and direction of touch. Their diversity constructs the relief without hard contour.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Royal Collection documents Study of rocks, the Creuse: Le Bloc, oil on canvas from 1889, 72.4 × 91.4 cm, RCIN 406495 and Wildenstein 1228.

Exposure01

Presented with Rodin in June 1889

The painting is one of fourteen landscapes of the Creuse shown at the Georges Petit gallery during the joint exhibition of Monet and Auguste Rodin.

Friendship02

A work offered to Georges Clemenceau

Monet gave Le Bloc to his friend in 1899. Clemenceau gave him this nickname, also linked to the title of the political newspaper he founded.

Collection03

Acquired by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother

In the middle of the 20th century, the work joined the small group of modern paintings in its collection, now part of the Royal Collection.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The Wildenstein 1228 version
  • The rock mass in very close-up
  • The orange, purple and green colors of the slope
  • The thin strip of sky and the branches of the ridge

Work sheet

Title The Block, study of rocks in the Creuse W1228
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1889
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72.4 × 91.4 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Royal Collection, Clarence House, London, United Kingdom
Inventory RCIN 406495 · Wildenstein 1228
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Royal Collection Trust · RCIN 406495

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A palette designed with the room

This powerful work is suitable for a living room, dining room or office. A pale terracotta wall, gray blue or deep green and a dark frame reinforce its relief.

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