A composition closed by the right wall
The viewer is placed as close as possible to the cliff, without panoramic recoil. This proximity increases the feeling of height and danger.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Normandy coast · 1896 -1897 · MNR 223
A high chalky wall descends from the upper right edge to a green and white sea. In the center, a dark promontory receives the shock of the waves, while a light rock in the foreground seems to advance in the foam. Dated 1897 by the Musée d'Orsay - the Wildenstein catalog locating it in 1896 - this oil on canvas of 65 × 100 cm is kept in Paris under the number MNR 223.

Look at the work
The wide format is divided between the open sea on the left and the cliff which closes the entire right side. A light rock occupies the central bottom, then the coast forms a succession of projections towards the horizon. The gray sky almost merges with the offshore line.
The sea combines pale green, turquoise, blue gray and white. On the cliff, vertical touches of green, pink and purple cross the chalk. The foam, very thick near the rocks, visually connects the wall to the movement of the water.
The cliff is not a stable mass opposite the sea: its colors, streaks and edges themselves seem dissolved by humid air and sea spray.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The viewer is placed as close as possible to the cliff, without panoramic recoil. This proximity increases the feeling of height and danger.
Whites, greens and grays overlap in short touches. The surf is readable around the rocks but never freezes in drawing.
The notice from the Musée d'Orsay dates the work to 1897 and indicates that Daniel Wildenstein placed it in 1896. The sheet retains this documentary nuance.
Reference image
A single high definition photograph of the work MNR 223 is used throughout the file and as the sole media for the product. The real WebP measures 3,000 × 2,034 px, from a museum file of 8,581 × 5,817 px, without artificial enlargement.
It must remain close and cut by the frame. Reducing it would transform this narrow view into a panoramic navy.
Its triangular mass gives the scale of the waves and creates the first depth level.
The sea is neither pure blue nor uniformly white. Cold variations make you feel overcast skies and hustle and bustle.
Documented benchmarks
The Musée d'Orsay documents Falaise de Fécamp, oil on canvas of 65 × 100 cm, number MNR 223, dated 1897; the notice specifies that Wildenstein dates it from 1896.
The official notice retains both designations. The landscape belongs to Monet's research on the cliffs of the Normandy coast in the late 1890s.
Found in Germany after the Second World War, the painting was entrusted to the custody of national museums in 1950. It bears the number MNR 223.
After being deposited in Nice then in Agen, the work returns to the Musée d'Orsay in 2021. The official notice gives its current location in Paris.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Fécamp cliff |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1897 (Wildenstein: 1896) |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65 × 100 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France |
| Inventory | MNR 223 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This panoramic navy is suitable for a living room, office or dining room. A pearl gray, sea green or slate blue wall and a natural setting highlight its fresh light.
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