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Vallée de la Petite Creuse W1230 par Claude Monet, MFA Boston
  • Vallée de la Petite Creuse W1230 par Claude Monet, MFA Boston
  • Vallée de la Petite Creuse W1230 par Claude Monet, MFA Boston
The Petite Creuse Valley W1230 - Claude Monet

The Petite Creuse Valley W1230 - Claude Monet

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Artwork description

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Claude Monet · Fresselines · 1889 · W1230

The Petite Creuse Valley W1230hand painted reproduction

The Petite Creuse sparkles between blue, pink and green rocky slopes, under a clear sky where the light almost erases the horizon. Painted in Fresselines in 1889, this oil on canvas measuring 65.4 × 81.3 cm is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under number 23.541 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1230.

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The Petite Creuse Valley W1230Claude Monet · 1889
1889Dating
65.4 × 81.3 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
23,541 · Wildenstein 1230Inventory
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

The river becomes a line of light at the bottom of a colorful gorge

The left slope plunges towards the water in a large dark diagonal. The opposite bank rises towards the sky; an isolated tree and a few masses of foliage give the scale of this steep relief.

Cobalt blue, purple, pink, green and yellow are placed in superimposed touches. On the river, white and pale blue accents fragment the current into moving shards.

Monet does not describe each stone: he makes the inclination of the ground felt by flows of colors which descend to the river.

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 slightly upstream point of view

W1230 belongs to three views of the Petite Creuse taken before its confluence with the Grande Creuse. Monet's movement reveals the curve of the watercourse and the steep slope.

02

Colored bands to shape the rock

The slopes are built by touches that cascade diagonally. The purple hollows and the green or pink areas simultaneously reflect relief, shade and vegetation.

03

A surface worked in layers

The MFA highlights the complexity of overlays: broad brush strokes and small, tight accents coexist, giving the light an appearance that is both dense and sparkling.

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Only one exact image of W1230 is used. The real WebP measures 1,600 × 1,279 px and maintains the best reliable public definition, without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

Keep the diagonal of the left slope

It carries the entire depth of the gorge. A reframing which would reduce it would weaken the movement towards the river.

Color02

Preserve the fragmented whites from the water

They must not form a continuous band. Their irregularity restores reflections and current.

Matter03

Keep isolated tree very thin

It serves as a scale marker in the middle of rock masses. Thickening it too much would transform its role in the composition.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston documents The Valley of the Little Creuse, oil on canvas from 1889, 65.4 × 81.3 cm, inventory 23,541 and Wildenstein 1230.

Series01

One of the three views of the Petite Creuse upstream

W1230, W1231 and W1232 show the same sector before the encounter with the Grande Creuse, with different framing and lighting effects.

Stay02

Monet in Fresselines in the spring of 1889

Delayed by bad weather and the growth of leaves, the artist returns to his paintings for a long time in order to maintain the coherence of each effect.

Collection03

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The work is numbered 23.541 and is part of the important collection of Monet landscapes preserved by the museum.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The Wildenstein 1230 version
  • The diagonal rocky slope
  • The isolated tree on the bank
  • The white reflections of Petite Creuse

Work sheet

Title The Petite Creuse Valley W1230
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1889
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65.4 × 81.3 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, United States
Inventory 23,541 · Wildenstein 1230
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · 23.541

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This vibrant landscape is suitable for a living room, dining room or office. A gray blue, sage green or mineral pink wall and a dark frame reinforce its reliefs.

La Vallée de la Petite Creuse W1230, painted for your interior

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