A large strip of meadow to slow the approach
The apparent void in the foreground is carefully constructed by variations of yellow-green. Poppies form an irregular seedling which animates the surface and gradually leads towards homes.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · New houses behind a flowered meadow · Alte Nationalgalerie
Three white houses with red roofs line up behind a vast yellow and green meadow punctuated with poppies. A church spire stands in the center under a blue sky covered with purple and white clouds. In 1873, Monet looked at Argenteuil as a meeting place between countryside and modern suburbs: recent architecture remains light, almost absorbed by air, grass and light.

Look at the work
The foreground occupies almost half of the canvas. Monet superimposes yellows, greens and bluish grays, then disperses small red touches which suggest the poppies without drawing them. This open strip keeps the viewer away from the houses and amplifies the feeling of space.
The facades are divided into three groups separated by gardens, fences and trees. Their walls are never pure white: mauves, blues and greens shape the shadow. Above, the dark spire of the church and the chimneys create a few fine verticals in front of a sky treated by wide passages.
Monet chose neither the intact countryside nor the dense city: he painted the edge of Argenteuil, where houses, gardens and fields are transformed together.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The apparent void in the foreground is carefully constructed by variations of yellow-green. Poppies form an irregular seedling which animates the surface and gradually leads towards homes.
Each house receives mauve or blue shadows, salmon roofs and some black accents in the openings. This colorful palette keeps the architecture in the same atmosphere as the landscape.
New houses, fences and gardens bear witness to the growth of Argenteuil, connected to Paris by the railway. Monet integrates them into the everyday motif rather than making them a descriptive urban scene.
Reference image
The visual comes from the digitization of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for Maisons à Argenteuil, inventory AI 637 and catalog Wildenstein 277. The only file is a real WebP of 1,654 × 1,202 px, without artificial enlargement.
Light blues, purple grays and cream whites alternate in soft passages. The darkest clouds concentrate to the right and bring out the warm roofs.
Red appears in small groups, more in the center and to the right. Their random dispersion creates a natural depth in the meadow.
The house on the left tends towards blue, the one in the center towards gray, the one on the right towards green and pink. Respecting these differences avoids a monotonous alignment of white facades.
Documented benchmarks
Painted in 1873, this oil on canvas measures 54 × 73 cm. It belongs to the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin under the inventory AI 637 and bears the number Wildenstein 277.
Monet settled in this commune in 1871. There he observed the bridges, the Seine, the gardens and the new constructions which quickly transformed the old rural locality.
The painting passed through the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel before entering the Nationalgalerie in Berlin on December 19, 1898. It was one of the museum's early acquisitions of a French impressionist.
The reference file is provided by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and photographed by Joerg P. Anders. It restores the more gray and purple tones of the canvas, often replaced in reproductions by overly saturated greens and blues.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Houses in Argenteuil W277 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1873 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 54 × 73 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Inventory | AI 637 · Wildenstein 277 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This light landscape is suitable for a living room, bedroom or dining room. A light oak, off-white or matte gold frame extends its opening; a gray blue, linen or sage green wall reveals roofs and poppies.
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