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Bateaux dans le port de Honfleur W77a par Claude Monet, 1866
  • Bateaux dans le port de Honfleur W77a par Claude Monet, 1866
  • Bateaux dans le port de Honfleur W77a par Claude Monet, 1866
Boats in the port of Honfleur W77a - Claude Monet

Boats in the port of Honfleur W77a - Claude Monet

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Artwork description

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Claude Monet · Four sailboats packed in a corner of the port · 1866

Boats in the port of Honfleur W77ahand painted reproduction

Four boats occupy almost the entire visual field in the port of Honfleur. Their hulls overlap, their sails rise to the edges of the canvas and a complex network of masts, yards and ropes connects each boat to the next. Below, the very calm water transforms these dark and light masses into discontinuous reflections, posed by large touches of gray, blue, yellow and pink.

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Boats in the port of Honfleur W77aClaude Monet · 1866
1866Dating
49 × 64.8 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
Wildenstein 77aInventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

The silhouettes of the ships form a tight diagonal which opens the port to the left

A large black hull occupies the center and carries several folded sails, including a light room suspended very high. On the right, the monumental sail of a boat cut by the edge acts like a curtain. Houses on the quay are inserted between these two masses, with their brown roofs and red chimneys.

On the left, cream-colored sails gradually diminish towards the pier. The gaze thus follows the succession of boats up to the tiny silhouettes of the background. In the water, the vertical reflections of the masts break into wider touches, as if the rigorous construction of the rigging dissolved on contact with the basin.

Monet knows boats well enough to make them believable, then uses their tangle as bold pictorial architecture.

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

Low framing at water level

The viewpoint makes the hulls and masts appear particularly high. The ships do not float in a distant panorama: they surround the viewer and transform a corner of the port into a monumental composition.

02

A diagonal built by four boats

Christie's highlights the high line that leads from the foreground right to the pier left. Sails, masts and ropes create continuous visual relays; each boat belongs to the whole while retaining its own silhouette.

03

A study linked to a major project that has disappeared

The canvas is part of the preparatory studies for the vast Port of Honfleur W77, a composition of more than two meters intended for the Salon of 1867 and destroyed during the Second World War. Its smaller format retains the experimental energy of this project.

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The reference file includes the reproduction published for the Christie's sale in 2022. The source image of 3,200 × 2,382 px was limited to 3,000 × 2,233 px and encoded as a real WebP, without oversampling.

Composition01

The ropes form a network, not a uniform design

Their thickness, inclination and contrast are constantly changing. Tracing them all with the same sharpness would cause the depth to be lost between the different planes of the rigging.

Color02

Light sails contain warm grays

Cream, beige, muted pink and blue gray shape their folds. Pure white would remove the weight of the fabric and the cloudy light that envelops the port.

Matter03

The reflections are freer than the boats

Monet uses broad and gestural touches. They must evoke the color of the shells without exactly reproducing their shape, in order to maintain the calm but mobile surface of the water.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Signed Claude Monet lower right, this oil on canvas from 1866 measures 49 × 64.8 cm. It is listed as Wildenstein 77a and belongs to a private collection.

Normandy01

A port intimately known since youth

Monet grew up in Le Havre and frequented the cliffs, beaches and ports of the estuary. In Honfleur, he observed maritime activities with precision nourished by the example of Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind.

Reception02

A navy exhibited under several titles

The painting was notably presented as Boats: Holland in 1920 and Le Port de Honfleur during major exhibitions on the origins of impressionism. The W77a reference allows us to distinguish this version despite these title variations.

Provenance03

From the Cassatt family to the Getty collection

The work is among the first Monets acquired by an American collector: Alexander J. Cassatt, brother of Mary Cassatt. Passed down to his family, it was purchased in 1991 by Ann and Gordon Getty then sold in New York in 2022.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Maintain the descending diagonal of the four boats.
  • Maintain the diversity of masts, sails and ropes.
  • Preserve the contrast between structured shells and free reflections.
  • Keep the sky bright without erasing the gray tones of the port.

Work sheet

Title Boats in the port of Honfleur W77a
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1866
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 49 × 64.8 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Private collection, Work sold in New York in 2022
Inventory Wildenstein 77a
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - Christie's - Ann and Gordon Getty collection

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This horizontal navy is suitable for a living room, bookcase or office. An anthracite gray, walnut or midnight blue frame reinforces the hulls; a light wall highlights the sails and silver reflections.

Boats in the port of Honfleur W77a, painted for your interior

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