À propos de l’œuvre
Le Jardin de Monet à Giverny, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1895 · Bührle BU 0072 · W1420
Monet's Garden in Giverny, Bührle W1420hand painted reproduction
In the middle of a garden saturated with flowers, Suzanne Hoschedé walks along a pink path. Her red bodice, light skirt and straw hat appear between masses of blue, yellow, orange and green. Monet does not describe each botanical variety: he organizes a colorful immersion where the figure seems to be born from the same touch as the vegetation.
Look at the work
Suzanne Hoschedé crosses the Norman Clos like a presence of color in the middle of flowers
The pink path rises from the lower left and widens around the figure, creating the only truly open area. On either side, the massifs rise very high and close the horizon. The garden becomes an enveloping space, without visible sky or facade to set its limits.
The woman stands out thanks to the red of the garment and the light value of the skirt, but its contours remain crossed by the surrounding touches. The yellow and orange flowers form several clusters, the blues circulate like a cool shadow and the dark greens maintain depth.
In W1420, the garden does not frame the figure: it gently absorbs it into its own light.
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.
Le Clos Normand as a constructed landscape
Based in Giverny since 1883, Monet gradually transformed the old vegetable garden in front of the house into a garden of colors. In 1895, he did not copy nature left to chance: he painted a motif that he himself organized, planted and evolved.
An identifiable figure at the heart of the vegetation
Suzanne Hoschedé, daughter of Alice, brings a human scale and discreet movement. Her vertical body responds to the guardians of the right massif, while her arm extends the oblique gesture of the path and the flowers.
A transition table to large water gardens
The same year, Monet had the Japanese bridge built in the water garden. This canvas remains centered on the Norman Clos and the figure, but its network of colorful touches already announces the immersion without horizon which will dominate the Water Lilies.
Reference image
Read this specific version
The single reference image measures 2051 × 1800 px. Resulting from the collection reproduction associated with the Bührle Foundation, it was converted into a real WebP with its native definition, without artificial enlargement.
A clear path caught between two walls of flowers
The composition forms a soft funnel: the path leads towards Suzanne, then disappears behind her. The lateral massifs must remain asymmetrical to maintain the impression of walking and profusion.
Coral red, floral blue and solar yellow
Warm tones draw the eye towards the figure and flowers, while blues refresh the shadows. The greens, very varied, ensure cohesion without becoming a uniform mass.
A fragmented touch that changes scale
The flowers are indicated by short impasto, the foliage by darker gestures and the path by wider passages. Reproduction must maintain these differences in rhythm and load.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
This information concerns precisely Monet's Garden in Giverny from the Bührle Collection, inventory BU 0072 and Wildenstein 1420.
Bührle BU 0072, W1420
The work is an oil on canvas from 1895 measuring 81.5 × 92 cm. It is signed and dated "Claude Monet 95" at the bottom right.
Bührle collection, ready at the Kunsthaus Zürich
The Kunsthaus registers the painting under inventory BU 0072 and credits it to the EG Bührle Collection Foundation. Its administrative entry into the Kunsthaus dates from 2021 as part of the long-term loan.
Wildenstein III.588.1420
The scientific notice links the painting to volume III, page 588, number 1420 of the catalog raisonné. Its documented provenance includes Durand-Ruel, Bernheim-Jeune and the Franz Ullstein collection.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version BU 0072 and Wildenstein 1420
- The original format of 81.5 × 92 cm, slightly horizontal
- Suzanne Hoschedé kept readable without insulating outline
- The blue, yellow and orange massifs differentiated by the material
Work sheet
| Title | Monet's Garden in Giverny, Bührle W1420 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1895 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 81.5 × 92 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal, close to the square |
| Conservation | EG Bührle Collection Foundation, on loan to the Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Inventory | BU 0072 · Wildenstein 1420 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Deep green, ultramarine blue, coral red, saffron yellow and powder pink make up a very lively reproduction. It brings color to a dining room, a bright living room or a bedroom combining natural wood and unbleached textiles.
