À propos de l’œuvre
Maisons au bord de la route, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1885 · W972
Houses on the side of the W972 roadhand painted reproduction
On the right, several houses with cream walls and red roofs follow one another along a road which descends diagonally towards the foreground. A large blue sky occupies the upper half of the canvas; on the left, basic trees and a purple hill open the landscape towards the distance. Painted in 1885, this oil on canvas measuring 63.5 × 81.3 cm is kept in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta under number 2019.152 and corresponds to Wildenstein 972.
Look at the work
The pink road leads between the light houses and the immense blue sky
The buildings form an irregular chain that starts from the right edge and tightens towards the center. Their gables and chimneys create a vertical rhythm, but the oblique road and terrain lines constantly lead the gaze to the left and depth.
The sky combines light blue, turquoise and pearl gray clouds placed in broad touches. The walls receive pink, yellow and blue, while the ground mixes green, mauve and terracotta; light thus circulates in each surface without a closed contour.
Monet transforms an ordinary roadside into a dynamic construction: the gables go up, the roadway goes down and the foreground keys cross the canvas in rapid diagonals.
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.
Houses pushed back to the right edge
The largest building is partially cut by the frame. This proximity gives the viewer the impression of entering the village rather than contemplating it from a distance.
A road that organizes all the depth
The pink ribbon leaves near the lower center and rises between the houses. It connects the very tactile foreground to the constructions which diminish rapidly towards the horizon.
A dominant sky but never empty
Its long blue and gray touches respond to the directions of the terrain. The atmospheric aperture balances the architectural density of the right half.
Reference image
Read this specific version
The single reference image is kept at its native definition of 2,320 × 1,800 px then encoded in real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
Maintain the large proportion of sky
It gives air to the village and brings out the gables. A tighter framing on the houses would remove the particular balance of W972.
Preserve facades made of mixed colors
The walls are not white: they contain pinks, yellows, grays and blues that make the light vibrant.
Keep the brush strokes diagonal from the field
These green, purple and red touches should not be smoothed. They give the foreground its movement and lead towards the road.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The High Museum of Art preserves Houses along the Road, also titled Houses on the Roadside, Oil on Canvas from 1885, Inventory 2019.152 and Wildenstein 972.
The rural surroundings of Giverny
Based in Giverny since 1883, Monet still paints well beyond his garden: roads, houses, meadows and hills become the motifs of his nearby countryside.
25 × 32 inches, or 63.5 × 81.3 cm
The horizontal format allows the succession of houses, the diagonal of the road and a very wide opening of the sky to coexist.
Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection
The work joins the High Museum of Art with the Doris and Shouky Shaheen collection and bears inventory number 2019.152.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The Wildenstein 972 version
- The houses lined up on the right
- The diagonal pink road
- The vast blue sky covered with clouds
Work sheet
| Title | Houses on the side of the W972 road |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1885 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 63.5 × 81.3 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States |
| Inventory | 2019.152 · Wildenstein 972 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This bright horizontal landscape is suitable for a living room, kitchen or office. A pale blue, mineral pink or sage green wall and a light frame extend its rural freshness.
