A painted panel in Giverny
Monet created this large format in his workshop from a smaller study painted on site. The change of scale allows him to broaden the pattern and transform the garden into a decorative composition.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Bordighera · 1884 · W857
In the Moreno garden, a light villa emerges behind palm trees, agaves and abundant massifs, in front of the blue mountains of the Riviera. This large decorative panel of 116.5 × 136.5 cm, signed and dated Claude Monet 84, is kept at the Musée d'Orsay under number RF 2000 94.

Look at the work
The villa occupies the right edge and is partially cut by the frame. In the center, a thin trunk rises in front of the mountains; palm fronds, agaves and bushes overlap their shapes up to the foreground.
The cream and pink facades are surrounded by bluish greens, yellows and mauves. The distant mountain remains colder and more flexible, which allows the dense garden to maintain depth despite the absence of a perspective path.
W857 is less of an architectural view than a decorative panel where the villa, exotic plants and mountain share the same colorful light.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Monet created this large format in his workshop from a smaller study painted on site. The change of scale allows him to broaden the pattern and transform the garden into a decorative composition.
The panel was intended for the living room-workshop of Berthe Morisot, the first owner of the painting. He then passed to his daughter Julie Manet and remained with the family for a long time before entering the museum.
The dimensions of 116.5 × 136.5 cm, the RF 2000 94 inventory and the Wildenstein 857 reference distinguish this large panel from the smaller versions of Chicago, Potsdam and Santa Barbara.
Reference image
Only one reference image is used. The high definition scanning of the RF 2000 94 panel is converted into a true WebP of 3000 × 2555 px, without artificial enlargement.
The width remains close to the height, which concentrates the garden rather than stretching it. The vertical fins and the cut villa should balance the wide base of agaves and bushes.
The foliage contains blue, yellow and purple; the walls mix cream, pink and mauve. This complementary opposition makes the architecture vibrate without separating it from the garden.
The agaves receive long, pointed lines, the bushes receive short touches and the walls receive more flat passages. Their diversity gives readability to deliberately abundant vegetation.
Documented benchmarks
The Musée d'Orsay preserves Les Villas à Bordighera, oil on canvas from 1884, 116.5 × 136.5 cm, inventory RF 2000 94 and Wildenstein 857.
Monet describes this garden as an earthly paradise. Palm trees, citrus fruits, agaves and ornamental plants offer it a density and light unknown in its landscapes of northern France.
The museum notes the signature and date Claude Monet 84 at the bottom right. Their purplish pink color integrates them with the warm accents of the vegetation.
After its acquisition by the GAN group in 1992 and ten years of deposit, the work entered the Musée d'Orsay in 2000 with the assistance of the Heritage Fund and several patrons.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Villas in Bordighera W857 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1884 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 116.5 × 136.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal almost square |
| Conservation | Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France |
| Inventory | RF 2000 94 · Wildenstein 857 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This generous composition is suitable for a large living room, dining room or hall. A warm white wall, brown wood and some terracotta or gray blue elements extend the Riviera without competing with the garden.
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