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Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil W319 par Claude Monet, 1873-1874, musée d’Orsay
  • Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil W319 par Claude Monet, 1873-1874, musée d’Orsay
  • Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil W319 par Claude Monet, 1873-1874, musée d’Orsay
The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil W319 - Claude Monet

The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil W319 - Claude Monet

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Boutique Claude Monet French painting – French artists Impressionist Impressionist cities and modern life Impressionist Landscapes Impressionist water and coastlines Japonism Landscapes with bridges Landscapes with paths and roads

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Claude Monet · The train crosses the Seine · Musée d'Orsay

The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil W319hand painted reproduction

The railway bridge crosses the painting diagonally, carried by high light pillars which are reflected in the Seine. A train advances on the deck, followed by a plume of smoke almost confused with clouds. Monet combines modern infrastructure, water current and vegetation in a composition of great coherence.

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The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil W319Claude Monet · 1873-1874
1873-1874Dating
54 × 71 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
RF 1679 · Wildenstein 319Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
Controlled in photoYou see the finished painting before it leaves.
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Look at the work

The diagonal of the bridge transforms the train passage into a landscape

The deck enters from the top right and descends towards the opposite bank. Four piles of stone and their reflections punctuate the water. The nearby bank, shaded and covered with vegetation, occupies the right edge with a low fence in the foreground.

The convoy, reduced to a series of dark shapes, cuts the clear sky. Its gray smoke stretches to the left and joins the clouds. On the Seine, the blue, gray and mauve touches record the current as much as the reflections of the bridge.

Bridge, train, smoke and river develop four different movements, united by the same diagonal towards the horizon.

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 structure seen from the bank

The low viewpoint makes the piers monumental while the deck quickly shortens towards the left bank.

02

A contrast between stone and foliage

The light supports stand out against the green shadows of the bank. Their geometry, however, remains softened by reflections.

03

The train connected to the sky

The plume extends the convoy horizontally then mixes with the clouds; industry is thus integrated into the atmosphere rather than isolated.

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The unique reference corresponds to the RF 1679 inventory of the Musée d'Orsay, Wildenstein 319 version. The file of 1,800 × 1,354 px retained its native resolution, without enlargement, then was encoded in WebP.

Composition01

Four piers and a dark bank

This arrangement identifies Orsay's version W319 and distinguishes it from other paintings on the same bridge painted by Monet.

Color02

Interrupted reflections

The vertical shapes of the piles fragment in the current; they must not become sharp and symmetrical mirrors.

Matter03

A very mobile creamy blue sky

Short light touches respond to the plume of the train, while a few mauve grays separate smoke and clouds.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Painted between 1873 and 1874, this oil on canvas measuring 54 × 71 cm is kept at the Musée d'Orsay under the inventory RF 1679 and classified Wildenstein 319.

Argenteuil01

A modern landscape inhabited by rail

Monet lived in Argenteuil from 1871 to 1878. The Seine, the bridges and the railway allowed him to bring together leisure, industry and atmospheric variations.

Exposure02

Presented in 1876

The painting appears under number 152 at the second impressionist exhibition, organized in Paris in the Durand-Ruel galleries.

Donation03

The Moreau-Nélaton legacy to the National Museums

Having passed through the Faure then Moreau collections, it was donated to the State by Étienne Moreau-Nélaton in 1906 and assigned to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Respect the descending angle of the apron and the four piles.
  • Keep the right bank in deep green shade.
  • Fragment vertical reflections in the current.
  • Preserve the train and its smoke without confusing them with clouds.

Work sheet

Title The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil W319
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1873-1874
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 54 × 71 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Inventory RF 1679 · Wildenstein 319
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - Musée d'Orsay - RF 1679

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This combination of stone, water and greenery is suitable for a living room, office or contemporary interior. A stone gray, smoked oak or deep green frame highlights the diagonal of the bridge.

The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil W319, painted for your interior

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