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L’Aiguille et la Porte d’Aval, Étretat W1033 par Claude Monet, Fitzwilliam Museum
  • L’Aiguille et la Porte d’Aval, Étretat W1033 par Claude Monet, Fitzwilliam Museum
  • L’Aiguille et la Porte d’Aval, Étretat W1033 par Claude Monet, Fitzwilliam Museum
The Needle and the Downstream Gate, Étretat W1033 - Claude Monet

The Needle and the Downstream Gate, Étretat W1033 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Étretat · around 1885 -1886 · W1033

The Needle and the Downstream Gate, Étretat W1033hand painted reproduction

In a pale blue atmosphere, the Needle stands in the foreground while the Downstream Gate closes the right of the composition. The sea, sky and chalk share turquoise, roses and grays so close that the rocks appear to emerge from a luminous mist. Dated around 1885 -1886, this oil on canvas measuring 64.8 × 81 cm is kept at the Fitzwilliam Museum under the number PD.26-1998 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1033.

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L'Aiguille et la Porte d'Aval, Étretat W1033 - Claude Monet - full view
The Needle and the Downstream Gate, Étretat W1033Claude Monet · around 1885 -1886
around 1885 -1886Dating
64.8 × 81 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
PD.26-1998 · Wildenstein 1033Inventory
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.
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Look at the work

Two chalk monuments emerge from a light that almost dissolves the horizon

The Needle, slightly off-center to the left, rises on a dark and purple base. Behind it, the sea has only a few small sails and horizontal lines; its blue is so close to that of the sky that the horizon line remains deliberately uncertain.

The Downstream Gate is cut by the right edge. Its pink, gray and brown mass descends into the water around a narrow, blue opening. This incomplete framing brings the cliff closer to the viewer and makes the Needle appear more isolated in the center of the marine space.

The power of the cliffs does not come from a dramatic contrast: it arises from their gradual appearance in blue light, as if the chalk retained the colors of the air and the sea.

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

A framing that refuses the postcard

Monet does not show the entire Downstream Gate. By cutting the cliff to the right and isolating the Needle, he transforms a famous site into an unstable relationship between proximity, distance and mist.

02

A painting probably preserved as a study

The Fitzwilliam specifies that the work could have served as a sketch for a signed and dated version of the same subject today in a private collection. Its rapid gesture and its very free areas remain fully visible.

03

A cold range crossed by pink

The sea is turquoise, the sky milky blue and the rocks pink, mauve or gray. These colors respond to each other instead of drawing firm contours, which gives the chalk its moist and changing appearance.

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The only image comes from the IIIF department of the Fitzwilliam Museum. The scientific shot of 5,000 × 4,106 px is cropped around the canvas, limited to 3,000 × 2,432 px and encoded as a real WebP.

Composition01

Keep the Needle slightly to the left of center

Its position and dark base balance the large cut cliff. Refocusing or enlarging it would make the composition too symmetrical.

Color02

Preserve the turquoise blue continuity of the sky and water

The horizon must remain subtle. A dark line or a strongly contrasting sky would remove the mist effect specific to this version.

Matter03

Keep the unfinished touch of the Downstream Gate

Brown, pink and gray impasto should not become a clean architecture. Their freedom reflects the light and study status evoked by the museum.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Fitzwilliam Museum documents The Rock Needle and Porte d'Aval, Étretat, oil on canvas circa 1885 -1886, 64.8 × 81 cm, inventory PD.26-1998 and catalog Wildenstein 1033.

Campaign01

Monet's third long stay in Étretat

In the fall and winter of 1885 -1886, he painted more than half of his known views of the site, constantly changing positions according to tide, light and weather.

Brand02

The Monet workshop stamp lower right

The canvas does not bear a conventional painted signature. The museum points out the studio mark, an element consistent with a work that remains in the artist's family.

Provenance03

By Michel Monet at the Fitzwilliam Museum

After the artist's son, the painting notably passed through Wildenstein and François Reichenbach. It was accepted as payment of inheritance tax and awarded to the museum in 1998.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The Wildenstein 1033 version
  • The Needle isolated on its purple base
  • The Downstream Gate cut by the right edge
  • The turquoise continuity between the sea and the sky

Work sheet

Title The Needle and the Downstream Gate, Étretat W1033
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date around 1885 -1886
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 64.8 × 81 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Inventory PD.26-1998 · Wildenstein 1033
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the notice and the manifesto IIIF - Fitzwilliam Museum · PD.26-1998

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This very light horizontal navy is suitable for a quiet bedroom, living room or office. A gray blue, sea green or off-white wall and a light wood or aged silver frame extend its atmosphere without hardening the cliffs.

The Needle and the Downstream Gate, Étretat W1033, painted for your interior

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