A diagonal hidden in the meander
The bank starts from the first right plane, retreats towards the trees then joins the slope. This winding diagonal connects the earth's space to the water and prevents the landscape from dividing into parallel bands.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · September 1884 · Jeufosse · W910
A calm arm of the Seine reflects the island of Merville, while the late afternoon sun gradually leaves the nearby shore. Monet painted this landscape in September 1884 at Jeufosse, about five kilometers upstream from Giverny. The oil on canvas measures 59.5 × 81 cm and corresponds to Wildenstein 910.

Look at the work
The water occupies the left half and receives yellow, pink and purple reflections from the bank. On the right, a still luminous carpet of grass leads towards two slender trees, then towards the slope already gained by the shadow. The curve of the shore avoids horizontal separation and brings the gaze into the meander.
The end of the day can be seen mainly in the temperature differences. Yellow greens remain on the grass and some foliage, while the mountain and shadows turn cold purple. Long touches structure the shadow areas; shorter, punctual touches make the water and exposed foliage sparkle.
W910 captures a shift: the sun still lights up the island and the water, but the air, the banks and the slope already announce the evening.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The bank starts from the first right plane, retreats towards the trees then joins the slope. This winding diagonal connects the earth's space to the water and prevents the landscape from dividing into parallel bands.
The Gunma Museum highlights the opposition between greens that preserve the memory of summer and violets associated with the colder air of early autumn. Loyalty depends less on an exact green than on its relationship to these purple shadows.
Monet takes over the same site in Jeufosse in several states of light. This practice, still linked to an outdoor campaign, announces the systematic method of Millstones, Poplars and Cathedrals of the following years.
Reference image
Only one image is used: the digital reproduction documented by the Gunma Museum and Google Arts & Culture, converted into a real WebP of 1,200 × 889 px at its available resolution, without artificial enlargement.
The dark foreground, the lit island, the trees and then the hill are distinguished by their temperature and intensity. Excessively accentuating the contours would eliminate this atmospheric depth.
The surface does not copy the bank like a mirror. Horizontal purple, brown and yellow passages mingle with the specific color of the river and must remain slightly discontinuous.
The long traces of the embankment oppose the small punctuations of the foliage and the friction of the water. This change of gesture produces the autonomous rhythm noted in the museum notice.
Documented benchmarks
The Gunma Museum of Modern Art describes an oil on canvas from 1884, 59.5 × 81 cm, deposited by the prefecture's business office and identified as Jeufosse, the Effect in the Late Afternoon.
The site is on the left bank of the Seine, about five kilometers from Giverny. Monet worked there at the beginning of September after a stay on the Normandy coast.
The sun still makes the water and the island of Merville shine, while the nearby bank and slope cool. The title refers directly to this passage towards dusk.
The work is presented by the museum among its main Western paintings. This is a deposit from Gunma Prefecture, not a painting located in a French collection.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Le Bras de Jeufosse, late afternoon W910 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1884 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 59.5 × 81 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Japan |
| Inventory | Gunma Prefectural Depot · Wildenstein 910 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
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Moss greens, mauves and muted yellows are suitable for a quiet room with warm ecru or gray walls. The horizontal format works above a console or headboard; smoked oak and soft lighting prolong the atmosphere at the end of the day.
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