À propos de l’œuvre
Mer agitée à Pourville, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Pourville · 1882 · W718
Rough seas in Pourville W718hand painted reproduction
A blue-green sea breaks into wide white ridges at the foot of the Pourville cliff, under a sky crossed by rapid clouds. Signed and dated Claude Monet 82, this oil on canvas measuring 59.5 × 73.5 cm belongs to a private collection and corresponds to Wildenstein 718.
Look at the work
The storm transforms the coast into a clash of diagonals
The dark beach starts from the lower left corner and leads to a cliff that closes the horizon. The sea occupies almost the entire width; two tiny sails, offshore, are enough to measure the extent of the bad weather.
Petrol blue, green, white and purple build water in broken touches. The chalk of the cliff receives roses, ochres and greens, while the clear passages of the sky are reflected in the foam without calming the scene.
In W718, the sea is not a bottom: its oblique waves advance towards the viewer and give the entire composition its movement.
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 unusual view in the Pourville countryside
The Lempertz notice distinguishes W718 as the group's only painting from the end of winter 1882 entirely devoted to frankly stormy seas.
Two almost erased sails
The small dark triangles placed on the horizon introduce a human scale without recounting a navigation scene. Their fragility accentuates the mass of water.
The cliff heated by the land
Ocher, pink and brown liven up the wall despite the overcast sky. These tones respond to the beach and prevent the navy from becoming uniformly cold.
Reference image
Read this specific version
Only one exact image of W718 is used. The real WebP measures 1,886 × 1,524 px and retains wave, cliff and sail details without artificial enlargement.
Preserve foam thickness
The whites should remain irregular, sometimes opaque, sometimes mixed with the green of the water. A continuous line would make the waves decorative and flat.
Keep the beach very dark
This blue-brown foreground serves as an anchor for the clear waves. Raising it excessively would cause the depth and violence of the contrast to lose.
Keep both sails discreet
They must be visible when zoomed in but not become standalone subjects. Their small size is essential to the scale ratio.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The Lempertz notice documents Restless sea in Pourville, oil on canvas from 1882, 59.5 × 73.5 cm, signed and dated lower right and listed Wildenstein 718.
Pourville in late winter 1882
Monet stayed on the Normandy coast and painted a series of beaches, cliffs and sea states. W718 belongs to the Wildenstein group 709 to 721.
From Monet to Durand-Ruel
The painting was allegedly transferred directly by Monet to Paul Durand-Ruel in December 1883. It then passed into the collection of Catholina Lambert.
The Wildenstein 718 canvas
The stormy sea, the dark beach, the warm cliff and the two sails on the horizon precisely identify this version among the many views of Pourville.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The Wildenstein 718 version
- The foam-laden blue-green waves
- The diagonal dark beach
- The two sails under the Pourville cliff
Work sheet
| Title | Rough seas in Pourville W718 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1882 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 59.5 × 73.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Private collection, Work documented by Lempertz |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 718 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This energetic navy is suitable for a living room, office or entrance. A stone gray, mist blue or warm beige wall and a dark wooden frame extend the contrasts of the coast.
