A field treated as a moving surface
The Hermitage notice emphasizes the mass of flowers swept sideways. The keys do not describe each poppy: their common direction makes the ripple of the wind felt.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · around 1890 · Giverny · W1255
A carpet of red and pink poppies extends in front of a row of trees dominated by a very narrow poplar tree, under a vast blue sky punctuated with clouds. This oil on canvas measuring 60.5 × 92 cm, painted around 1890 in Giverny, is kept at the Hermitage Museum under the number Оoult-9004.

Look at the work
The field occupies almost the lower half and unfolds like a wide colored band. The tree line remains low, except for the central poplar which almost reaches the top of the sky. This contrast gives a strong vertical to an otherwise very horizontal composition.
The flowers are suggested by a multitude of touches of red, coral, pink and mauve placed on greens. The sky combines several blues with pale pink clouds; on the horizon, the trees mix green, ultramarine and purple in order to remain distinct without outline.
In W1255, Monet renounces botanical detail to paint the collective movement of the field, like a colored surface pushed by the wind.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The Hermitage notice emphasizes the mass of flowers swept sideways. The keys do not describe each poppy: their common direction makes the ripple of the wind felt.
The central tree, tall and thin, cuts the sky and prevents the composition from being reduced to three horizontal bands. Its irregular silhouette must remain light despite its structural role.
Before entering the Hermitage in 1948, the work belonged to Ivan Morozov and then to the State Museum of New Western Art. Its current inventory is ʻonds-9004.
Reference image
Only one image is used: the documented high definition scanning of version ̄oult-9004, converted to a true 3,000 × 1,925 px WebP from a 4,943 × 3,171 px PNG source, without artificial enlargement.
The retreat comes from the change in scale of the keys, the strip of trees and the blue relief on the right. No path leads the eye; color alone organizes space.
Poppies appear between greens, blues and yellows. These intervals must be maintained so that the field breathes and the reds remain luminous.
The sky receives wider and more melted passages; the field is built by small, numerous touches. This opposition reflects the calm air above moving vegetation.
Documented benchmarks
The Hermitage Museum documents Poppy Field, oil on canvas circa 1890, 60.5 × 92 cm, inventory ʻonds-9004 and Wildenstein 1255.
After settling in Giverny, Monet regularly observed the crops located around his house. Poppies give it a pattern where the color changes with the wind and distance.
The Hermitage retains an approximate dating around 1890. The catalog raisonné classifies the canvas under the number W1255, in a group of fields painted during this period.
The canvas is presented in the collections of French painting from the 19th and 20th centuries of the Hermitage Museum, in the General Staff building.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Poppy field W1255 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | around 1890 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60.5 × 92 cm |
| Orientation | Panoramic horizontal |
| Conservation | Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Inventory | ʻoult-9004 · Wildenstein 1255 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This large horizontal format is suitable above a sofa, sideboard or bed. A warm white wall, oak and some sky blue or earthy pink textiles extend the palette while letting the poppies dominate.
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