A pattern integrated into its environment
The millstone does not yet fill the frame as in the late series. It dialogues with the farm and the successive plans of the meadow.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1886 · W1073
A rounded millstone stands in a red and green meadow, in front of a few white houses and a row of trees under a changing sky. Signed and dated Claude Monet 86, this oil on canvas measuring 60.5 × 81.5 cm is kept at the Hermitage Museum under the number ʻ0.5 × 81.5 cm and corresponds to Wildenstein 1073.

Look at the work
Placed slightly to the left of the center, the millstone occupies the foreground without hiding the farms. The strips of meadow lead towards the houses then towards a line of trees which closes the horizon.
Green, coral, yellow and blue are placed in quick touches in the field. The millstone combines cream straw, green and pink; the sky mixes light blue, gray and mauve, suggesting unstable weather.
Before the famous series of 1890 -1891, the millstone was still an element among the fields, houses and trees of the lived countryside.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The millstone does not yet fill the frame as in the late series. It dialogues with the farm and the successive plans of the meadow.
The red and green areas of the field do not follow a strict geometric perspective. Their alternation is enough to keep the houses away.
The light remains bright on the meadow as gray clouds approach. This contrast gives the landscape a feeling of fleeting moment.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W1073 is used. The real WebP measures 2,200 × 1,629 px and maintains full framing without artificial enlargement.
It is neither perfectly conical nor symmetrical. Its small variations in contour give it a natural presence.
They respond to roofs and warm shadows of straw. Mitigating them would reduce depth and chromatic energy.
Their light walls must remain visible but without invented details. They place the millstone in a real agricultural landscape.
Documented benchmarks
The Hermitage Museum documents Meule à Giverny, oil on canvas from 1886, 60.5 × 81.5 cm, signed and dated lower right, inventory ʻonds-6563 and Wildenstein 1073.
Monet already studied the effects of light on millstones in the 1880s, but kept them within a larger landscape.
The Hermitage brings this view closer to a landscape painted the previous year without the millstone. Monet therefore works on a familiar site and its seasonal transformations.
Acquired by the Moscow collector in 1904, the painting then passed to the Museum of Modern Western Art before entering the Hermitage in 1931.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Grinding wheel in Giverny W1073 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1886 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60.5 × 81.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Inventory | ʻoult-6563 · Wildenstein 1073 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This warm landscape is suitable for a kitchen, living room or dining room. A cream, sage green or pale terracotta wall and a natural wood frame highlight the meadow.
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