À propos de l’œuvre
Champs de tulipes près de La Haye, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Hollande · 1886 · W1068
Tulip fields near The Hague W1068hand painted reproduction
Near The Hague, bands of red, white, yellow and green tulips extend to a canal and a line of mills. The first mill, placed on the left, forms the main dark accent under a huge, milky sky. Painted in 1886, this 66 × 81.5 cm oil on canvas belongs to the Netherlands Art Property Collection and is kept at the Van Gogh Museum under number s0530N2012; it corresponds to Wildenstein 1068.
Look at the work
The mills punctuate a plain where the color advances in long bands
The field fills the entire lower half. The colorful furrows start widely from the foreground then narrow towards the horizon, while the blue channel runs along the right and introduces a depth parallel to the rows of flowers.
The gray-blue sky occupies more than half of the canvas. Monet superimposes very light white, pink and turquoise touches; on the ground, the reds and greens are shorter and denser, which immediately brings flowering closer.
The Dutch plain appears almost featureless, but the tulip strips, canal and staggering of the mills give it a continuous depth.
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.
An off-center mill that gives scale
The large mill on the left does not close the view: its dark wings open the sky and allow you to measure the other mills, much smaller on the horizon.
A network of converging lines
The flower furrows and the canal bank follow slightly different directions. Their flexible convergence constructs the distance without geometric rigidity.
A deliberately low contrast sky
Diffused light avoids any harsh shadows. The colored grays of the sky unify the very fragmented reds, whites and greens of the field.
Reference image
Read this specific version
The single collector image of 6,797 × 5,425 px was reduced to 3,000 × 2,394 px and then encoded as a real WebP. No artificial enlargement was applied.
Keep the four main strips
Foreground red, central whites, greens, and blue channel must remain distinct to maintain depth.
Preserve the broken silhouette of the mill
The wings, the tower and the small neighboring building are made of separate keys; a continuous black outline would make them too heavy.
Keep the sky bright without whitening it
Blues, pinks and pale grays should remain noticeable to restore a damp, changing Dutch light.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The Van Gogh Museum documents Tulip Fields near The Hague, oil on canvas from 1886, 66 × 81.5 cm, inventory s0530N2012 and Wildenstein catalog 1068.
Five views painted in Holland in the spring of 1886
Invited by the diplomat d'Estournelles de Constant, Monet stayed near The Hague and Leiden and worked quickly while the fields were flowering.
A work from the Netherlands Art Property Collection
Recovered in Germany after the Second World War, the painting belonged to the Dutch state and was entrusted on loan to the Van Gogh Museum.
s0530N2012 and NK2373
The Van Gogh Museum issue accompanies that of the Dutch national collection, which precisely distinguishes this version from other tulip fields from 1886.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The Wildenstein 1068 version
- The large mill placed on the left
- The red and white bands in the foreground
- The blue canal which runs along the field
Work sheet
| Title | Tulip fields near The Hague W1068 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1886 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 66 × 81.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Inventory | s0530N2012 · NK2373 · Wildenstein 1068 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This horizontal landscape is suitable for a living room, bedroom or dining room. A gray blue, sea green or ivory wall and a dark setting balance its reds and vast sky.
