À propos de l’œuvre
Les glycines, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1919 -1920 · Marmottan Monet Museum · W1903
Glycines, Marmottan Monet Museum W1903hand painted reproduction
Three meters of canvas become a veil of wisteria suspended above a purple mist. Monet renounces any single center: green, blue and pink clusters appear in places, then dissolve in a light surface where the material retains the movement of the brush.
Look at the work
A frieze of hanging flowers crosses a space almost without horizon
The plant strip mainly occupies the upper part. It goes further to the right, where the white and purple clusters form a denser waterfall. On the left, the mass becomes rarer and allows a large lilac area to breathe, covered with bluish grays and very pale greens.
No trunk, no bank and almost no sky allow us to locate the gaze. The long oblique and vertical touches suggest the hanging flowers, while the horizontal passages at the bottom maintain the frieze format. Orange and red accents prevent the cold palette from becoming uniform.
The subject remains recognizable, but the canvas already functions as a continuous field: the wisteria are no longer in front of a decoration, they become the very space of the painting.
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.
A panoramic rhythm without a focal point
The gaze moves from one cluster to another across the entire width. Faithful reproduction should preserve purple breaths between flower masses instead of uniformly filling the surface.
Colorful whites, never neutral
Light areas combine lilac, blue gray, pink and sea green. Pure white would flatten the light and cause the depth created by the translucent layers to lose.
A free but organized material
The dangling keys describe the clusters; wider passages stabilize the background. Their direction and density must vary without transforming the work into indistinct interference.
Details and visual documents
Observe the material and the exact version
The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.
The full view measures 4570 × 1468 px, the detail 1800 × 1200 px and the actual photograph 5268 × 1686 px. No files have been enlarged; all three images are real WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
Inventory 5124 of the Marmottan Museum
This unsigned oil on canvas measures 100 × 300 cm. The Marmottan Monet Museum dates it from 1919 -1920 and Daniel Wildenstein's catalog raisonné records it under number 1903.
A frieze linked to the Great Decorations
Monet considers wisteria as a floral band that can extend, above the large panels of water lilies, the immersion created by its decorative cycle. The very elongated format retains this frieze logic.
The legacy of Michel Monet in 1966
Remaining in the ensemble preserved by the artist's family, the painting entered the Marmottan Monet Museum with the legacy of Michel Monet. It thus joins the main world collection devoted to the late work of his father.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version of the Marmottan Monet Museum, inventory 5124
- The original panoramic ratio of 100 × 300 cm
- The deep purple breaths preserved between the clusters
- Whites tinged with pink, blue and sea green
Work sheet
| Title | Glycines, Marmottan Monet Museum W1903 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1919 - 1920 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 100 × 300 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal panoramic |
| Conservation | Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris, France |
| Inventory | 5124 · Wildenstein 1903 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Misty mauve, sea green, gray blue and powder pink make up a bright and calm palette. This panoramic reproduction is particularly suitable for a large wall above a sofa, sideboard or headboard.
