A panoramic format to follow the river
The proportions of 61.5 × 100 cm stretch the Seine and let the gaze circulate between the ice, the trees and the opening of the sky.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Frozen Seine · 1882 · W571
Plates of ice break up on the Seine and reflect a pale sky between two banks of bare trees. Painted in 1882, La Débâcle is an oil on canvas mounted at 61.5 × 100 cm kept at the Kunstmuseum Bern under number G 1870; it corresponds to Wildenstein 571.

Look at the work
The river occupies most of the elongated format. The trees form a dark strip on the left bank while the opposite bank, lower, opens the perspective towards the distance.
Blue grays, mauves, whites and browns are placed in short touches. The pieces of ice interrupt the vertical reflections and give the water a slow, heavy, almost silent movement.
The subject is not just winter: it is the moment when a still surface becomes common again, and the sky fragments in each patch of ice.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The proportions of 61.5 × 100 cm stretch the Seine and let the gaze circulate between the ice, the trees and the opening of the sky.
The trunks and their reflections form a dark network that the light plates interrupt. This opposition makes the thaw visible.
Monet observed the breaking of the ice on the Seine several times. Each canvas combines a precise state of water, a different time and light.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W571 is used. The real WebP measures 1024 × 658 px, without artificial enlargement.
The sky should not turn pure white. Its bluish grays determine the entire temperature of the painting.
The light plates have irregular edges, while the reflections descend in vertical touches. Their difference makes us understand the phenomenon.
They do not form a compact silhouette. The intervals between the trunks allow the bank and the distance to breathe.
Documented benchmarks
The Kunstmuseum Bern preserves La Débâcle, oil on mounted canvas from 1882, 61.5 × 100 cm, inventory G 1870 and Wildenstein 571.
After a period of frost, the plates come loose and drift. Monet makes it as much a light pattern as a weather event.
The work is recorded under G 1870 and entered the museum thanks to the Eugen Loeb bequest of Muri bei Bern.
Its large format, the row of trees on the left and the clear ice in the foreground allow it to be identified among the different Debacles.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The W571 Debacle |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1882 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61.5 × 100 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Inventory | G 1870 · Wildenstein 571 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This winter landscape is suitable for a quiet living room, bedroom or office. A pearl gray, smoky blue or off-white wall and a dark setting extend its light.
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