À propos de l’œuvre
Le jour de l'année, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · The port of Le Havre lit by the rising sun · J. Paul Getty Museum
Sunrise (Navy) W262hand painted reproduction
A sailboat with blue sails glides in the foreground while a boat loaded with silhouettes passes to the right. Behind them, liners, masts and smoke dissolve in a blue-purple mist. In the spring of 1873, Monet brought out an orange light in the middle of the humidity of the port of Le Havre, in a navy very close to the research of Impression, soleil levant.
Look at the work
An orange trail passes through the blue mist of the port in the early morning
The central boat advances sideways, its clear hull and triangular sails cut out of the water. On the right, the black boat carries several passengers reduced to vertical accents. The difference in scale between these two boats and the large ships at the bottom hollows out the basin.
The sun remains cloudy, but its oranges and roses appear in the sky then descend in a column of touches on the water. Around, blues, greens and purples mingle with industrial smoke, fog and reflections.
The sun does not illuminate objects separately: its color passes through humid air and water, until it becomes the luminous axis of the entire composition.
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.
A modern port rendered by successive appearances
Ships, chimneys and distant masts are more or less visible depending on their depth in the mist. Monet suggests industrial activity without describing each building.
Orange and blue produce vibration
The complementary contrast immediately focuses the eye on the sun and its reflection. Warm touches remain rare, surrounded by a very nuanced cold range.
Different gestures for the sky and water
The sky receives wide and melted passages; the water is constructed in short, horizontal or oblique lines. This distinction simultaneously restores the humidity of the air and the lapping of the pool.
Reference image
Read this specific version
The visual corresponds to Sunrise (Navy), or Sunrise (Navy), Getty inventory 98.PA.164 and Wildenstein catalog 262. The unique WebP measures 3,000 × 2,440 px, obtained since Google Art Project digitization without artificial enlargement.
The sun remains caught in the mist
Its disk is not a clean circle. Roses, yellows and grays pass through it and attach it to the humid sky.
The central sails contain several bruises
Blue gray, lavender, cool white and darker touches give them transparency. Lightening them evenly would detach them too much from the port.
Distant ships must remain incomplete
Masts, chimneys and smoke emerge in fragments. Their low contrast is essential to maintain atmospheric depth.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
Painted in March or April 1873, this oil on canvas measures 50.2 × 61 cm. It is kept at the J. Paul Getty Museum under inventory 98.PA.164 and listed as Wildenstein 262.
The industrial port of Le Havre at daybreak
Since childhood, Monet has known the pools, liners and sailboats of Le Havre. The Getty here identifies their silhouettes through the smoke and humid morning air.
A navy from spring 1873
Getty documentation places the performance in March or April, in the period immediately close to the works that led to the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874.
A parallel search for Impression, rising sun
Both canvases show the port in the morning and use warm light in a cold atmosphere. This version is distinguished by the central tall ship and the column of golden reflections.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- Keep the sun cloudy and uncut.
- Preserve the dominant blue-purple.
- Keep distant boats in the mist.
- Vibrate the orange trail with separate touches.
Work sheet
| Title | Sunrise (Navy) W262 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | march or April 1873 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 50.2 × 61 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Inventory | 98.PA.164 · Wildenstein 262 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This bright navy is suitable for a living room, bedroom or office. A midnight blue, weathered gray or smoked oak frame accompanies the mist; a warm white, pale blue or gray pink wall reveals the sun.
