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Maisons à Falaise, brouillard W977 par Claude Monet, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
  • Maisons à Falaise, brouillard W977 par Claude Monet, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
  • Maisons à Falaise, brouillard W977 par Claude Monet, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
Houses in Falaise, fog W977 - Claude Monet

Houses in Falaise, fog W977 - Claude Monet

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Boutique Claude Monet Cliffs by Claude Monet French painting – French artists Houses of Claude Monet Impressionist Impressionist Landscapes Impressionist snow and winter Impressionist water and coastlines Japonism

Artwork description

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Claude Monet · Cliff · 1885 · W977

Houses in Cliff, fog W977hand painted reproduction

In almost total mist, a few pink roofs and a tall chimney appear in the center right before dissolving into pale blues, mauves and pearly grays. The terrain in the foreground is nothing more than a network of cold touches where faint green and red accents remain. Painted in Falaise in 1885, this oil on canvas measuring 73.5 × 92.5 cm is kept at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud under the number Dep. 0673 FC and corresponds to Wildenstein 977.

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Houses in Cliff, fog W977Claude Monet · 1885
1885Dating
73.5 × 92.5 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
Dep. 0673 FC · Wildenstein 977Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
Controlled in photoYou see the finished painting before it leaves.
Touch-ups includedAdjustments are made before shipping.

Look at the work

The fog almost erases the houses and transforms the landscape into light

The horizon forms no clear lines. The architectures come together in a narrow area slightly to the right of the center: a pink roof, a fireplace and a few darker verticals are enough to suggest the village without isolating it from the atmosphere.

The sky and ground share the same lavender blues and cold roses. Their separation is mainly based on the direction of the brushstrokes: calmer in the upper part, they become oblique, short and more varied in the foreground.

Here the pattern is not only seen through the fog: it is produced by it. Houses exist because some slightly warmer colors emerge from an almost monochrome envelope.

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.

01

An architecture reduced to a few signs

The chimney and roofs give just enough information to recognize houses. Their lack of contours expresses the distance and thickness of the air, not accidental imprecision.

02

A range of extremely close values

Pearl blue, gray pink, mauve and cream overlap without brutal contrast. The small temperature differences are enough to make the volumes appear and then disappear.

03

A foreground more tactile than the sky

The touches of the field are visible, crossed and sometimes more colorful. They give a point of support to the gaze before the composition fades upwards.

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The only reference photograph from the museum was cropped on the canvas, then reduced to 2,994 × 2,336 px and encoded as a real WebP, without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

Maintain the discretion of the houses

Strengthening their contours or colors would contradict the fog effect and transform W977 into an ordinary urban view.

Color02

Preserve mauve and pink shades in grays

A reproduction only blue or white would lose the warm vibration which causes the roofs to emerge and enlivens the atmosphere.

Matter03

Keep the signature visible without darkening the bottom

The signature is at the bottom right, but the ground must remain clear and diffuse in order to maintain the continuity of the mist.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Corboud Foundation preserves Houses in Falaise, fog, oil on canvas from 1885, 73.5 × 92.5 cm, Depot Dep. 0673 FC and Wildenstein 977.

Location01

Cliff, in Normandy

Monet stayed in this region in 1885 and observed how the terrain, roofs and chimneys changed when the mist greatly reduced visibility.

Effect02

Dense fog as the main subject

The canvas pushes the study of the atmosphere very far: the weak opposition between sky, terrain and architecture makes uncertain perception the true motif.

Collection03

Corboud Foundation, on deposit since 1999

The work belongs to the ensemble formed by Gérard Corboud and presented at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; it bears the number Dep. 0673 FC.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.

  • The Wildenstein 977 version
  • The pink roofs almost erased
  • The fireplace isolated in the mist
  • Blues and mauves with very similar values

Work sheet

Title Houses in Cliff, fog W977
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1885
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 73.5 × 92.5 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Corboud Foundation, Cologne, Germany
Inventory Dep. 0673 FC · Wildenstein 977
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the collection notice - Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Corboud Foundation · Dep. 0673 FC

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This very light horizontal landscape is suitable for a bedroom, living room or meditative space. An off-white, powder pink or mist blue wall and a light frame accompany its subtlety without hardening the image.

Houses in Falaise, fog W977, painted for your interior

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Houses in Falaise, fog W977 - Claude Monet
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