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Le Pont d’Argenteuil W311 par Claude Monet, 1874, musée d’Orsay
  • Le Pont d’Argenteuil W311 par Claude Monet, 1874, musée d’Orsay
  • Le Pont d’Argenteuil W311 par Claude Monet, 1874, musée d’Orsay
The Argenteuil Bridge W311 - Claude Monet

The Argenteuil Bridge W311 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Road bridge, moored boats and reflections · Musée d'Orsay

The Argenteuil Bridge W311hand painted reproduction

Two moored sailboats occupy the foreground in front of the Argenteuil road bridge. Their fine masts cross the sky, while the stone arches advance from the right above the Seine. Monet combines still firm contours for boats and architecture with freer touches in trees and reflections.

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The Argenteuil Bridge W311Claude Monet · 1874
1874Dating
60.3 × 80 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
RF 1937 41 · Wildenstein 311Inventory
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Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Nearby sailboats respond to the geometric mass of the deck

A white and ocher hull is moored near the lower edge; a second boat is placed on the left, almost cut by the frame. Their masts divide the space vertically and their ropes form light diagonals in front of calm water with blue, green and orange reflections.

On the right, four arches of the bridge are visible, supported by piers whose shadows extend into the Seine. A pink pavilion marks the entrance to the work. On the other bank, a yellow house and dense trees connect the architecture to the vegetation.

The flexible river serves as a counterpoint to the geometry of the bridge, while the masts articulate the two worlds like a network of moving lines.

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

Boats built by still firm shapes

The hulls, masts and ropes remain clearly organized. This relative precision contrasts with the more fragmented treatment of the bank and reflections, giving the foreground a stable presence.

02

Orange and blue to intensify the light

The Musée d'Orsay highlights the play of complements on masts, roofs and water. The yellows and oranges of boats and buildings gain shine upon contact with the blues of the sky and the river.

03

The measured repetition of the arches

The bridge is not placed frontally: it moves back to the right and its openings diminish. This perspective gives depth without preventing the large surface of water from remaining the true luminous center.

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The image corresponds to the Pont d'Argenteuil kept at the Musée d'Orsay, inventory RF 1937 41 and Wildenstein number 311. The reference file has been converted into a real WebP of 2,200 × 1,604 px.

Composition01

The cases must keep their particular profiles

The clear hull in the center and the boat cut to the left have neither the same orientation nor the same values. Distinguishing them from the drawing preserves the depth of the anchorage.

Color02

The arches retain blue and purple shadows

The stone is never uniformly gray. The cold passages under the bridge and the warm tones of the parapet shape its mass in the light of 1874.

Matter03

The first body of water remains relatively smooth

The keys are more united than in the middle zone, where the reflections break. This difference in texture is essential to avoid identical splashing over the entire surface.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Painted and signed in 1874, this oil on canvas measures 60.3 × 80 cm. It is kept at the Musée d'Orsay under the inventory RF 1937 41 and listed Wildenstein 311.

Series01

Seven views of the road bridge in 1874

The year of the first impressionist exhibition, Monet painted the Argenteuil bridge seven times and the railway bridge located upstream four times. Each version modifies the point of view, the light and the place of the boats.

Exposure02

Presented at the second impressionist exhibition

This painting appears at the exhibition organized at Durand-Ruel from March 30 to April 30, 1876, under number 56. It shows the peaceful modernity of Argenteuil without opposing architecture, leisure and nature.

Provenance03

From collector Faure to Personnaz bequest

Jean-Baptiste Faure probably acquired it directly from Monet in June 1874. Antonin Personnaz bought it from Durand-Ruel in 1906, then bequeathed it to the national collections in 1937.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Respect the position of the two boats and each mast.
  • Maintain the decreasing perspective of the arches.
  • Oppose the smooth water of the foreground to the more fragmented reflections.
  • Bringing oranges and blues into dialogue without saturating the whole thing.

Work sheet

Title The Argenteuil Bridge W311
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1874
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60.3 × 80 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Inventory RF 1937 41 · Wildenstein 311
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - Musée d'Orsay - Le Pont d'Argenteuil, RF 1937 41

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This balanced view is suitable for a living room, entrance or office. A blond, gray blue or off-white oak frame accompanies sailboats; a linen, sea green or pearl gray wall reveals the bridge.

The Pont d'Argenteuil W311, painted for your interior

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