À propos de l’œuvre
Pont de Waterloo, effet de soleil, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1903 · Hamilton · W1587
Waterloo Bridge, sun effect W1587hand painted reproduction
Waterloo Bridge stretches in a blue-purple mist, punctuated by small orange touches that signal light and traffic. Industrial chimneys dissolve behind the apron. This 65.1 × 100 cm oil on canvas, kept at the McMaster Museum of Art, is Wildenstein 1587.
Look at the work
The sun circulates in touches on an almost blue bridge
The bridge crosses the canvas in the middle and leaves plenty of room for the Thames. Its arches are visible by degrees: the first stands out in a deeper blue, while the following ones are gradually lost to the right. The city at the bottom is reduced to a few vertical masses and chimneys.
The sun effect does not take the shape of a disk. It appears in the pink, yellow and orange accents placed on the bridge then taken up in the water. The cold dominant thus remains crossed by heat, as if light filtered between smoke and steam rather than falling directly on objects.
W1587 makes the sun feel without showing it: a few warm touches are enough to transform the blue mist and set the entire Thames into vibration.
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.
McMaster's version
The McMaster Museum of Art documents a 1903 oil on canvas measuring 65.1 × 100 cm, donated by Herman H. Levy in 1984. The 1984.007.0043 inventory corresponds to Wildenstein number 1587.
A view of the industrial age
Chimneys, smoke, bridge traffic and boats are fully on topic. Monet does not remove the landscape industry: he observes how it changes the color and density of London's atmosphere.
A painting often loaned
The museum has presented the work in several exhibitions devoted to series and industry, notably at Ordrupgaard and the Art Gallery of Ontario. These comparisons allow you to directly compare your choices to other Waterloo Bridges.
Reference image
Read this specific version
Only one image is used: the documented reproduction of W1587, converted into a true WebP of 1457 × 942 px at its native resolution, without any artificial enlargement.
Arches fading to the right
Each opening has a different degree of readability. A faithful reproduction must maintain this progression, from the more sustained blues on the left to the shapes almost absorbed by the atmosphere.
A warm scattered light
Oranges and roses are rare but decisive. They must neither be removed by a dominant blue, nor become too saturated to the point of breaking the unity of the fog.
A Thames made of small covers
The foreground combines mauve, blue gray, pink and beige in horizontal touches. Their alternation gives the sensation of moving water without creating regular waves.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The McMaster Museum of Art documents an oil on canvas from 1903, 65.1 × 100 cm, inventory 1984.007.0043 and catalog Wildenstein 1587.
McMaster Museum of Art
The painting was donated by Herman H. Levy, OBE., in 1984. It belongs to the major core of the European collection of the Hamilton Museum.
Forty-seven views from the same bridge
The museum recalls the scale of the series: Monet uses a stable pattern to measure ever-changing conditions of light, smoke and fog.
Wildenstein 1587
The dimensions of 65.1 × 100 cm, the Canadian inventory and the blue-purple range crossed by warm touches isolate this version from other sun effects.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version of McMaster, inventory 1984.007.0043 and W1587
- The original format of 65.1 × 100 cm
- Gradual erasure of arches to the right
- The little warm touches preserved in the dominant blue-purple
Work sheet
| Title | Waterloo Bridge, sun effect W1587 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1903 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.1 × 100 cm |
| Orientation | Panoramic horizontal |
| Conservation | McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada |
| Inventory | 1984.007.0043 · Wildenstein 1587 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Its smoky blues, mauves and soft copper accents are suitable for an office, contemporary living room or bedroom. The walnut, browned metal and pearl gray wall highlight the deck while keeping the atmosphere bright.
