À propos de l’œuvre
Coin de l'étang à Giverny, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Giverny, 1917 · Grenoble Museum MG 2168 · W1878
Corner of the pond in Giverny, Grenoble W1878hand painted reproduction
The bank of the pool draws a clear curve which starts from the left edge, goes around the water lilies and disappears under the plants on the right. Above, a blue and green curtain closes the garden almost entirely. White and red flowers rise along the left side, while bright yellow branches cross the center. In this vertical format of 117 cm, Monet brings together the bank, water and foliage without revealing the sky.
Look at the work
A turquoise edge curve opens the pool under a wall of blue and yellow foliage
The upper half is dense but crosses several directions. The red and purple trunks descend vertically, the yellow branches tilt and the blue touches fill the intervals. On the left, a very thin stem bears pink and white flowers. It acts as a clear counterpoint to the heavier mass of red plants on the right side.
The pool occupies the bottom and center. Its water mixes olive, turquoise, purple and brown without becoming a simple blue mirror. A few orange-red water lilies punctuate the surface, then a darker area brings the eye back to the signature at the bottom right. The light green bank remains deliberately wide and luminous; it separates the reflections of the garden without enclosing them in a rigid shape.
The sky is absent, but its light crosses the painting through the yellows of the foliage, the turquoise of the bank and the small red flowers placed on the water.
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.
A curved bank which structures the entire height
Its light green connects the lower left to the center right. Its width is constantly changing; making it regular would cause the depth and momentum of the pelvis to lose.
Flowers used as directional accents
The whites and pinks go up to the left, the reds group together on the right and a few orange dots float at the bottom. Their position matters as much as their color.
Deep blues without uniform black
The bottom of the garden combines cobalt, bottle green, purple and touches of yellow. Preserving this diversity keeps trees legible despite their density.
Details and visual documents
Observe the material and the exact version
The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.
The reference view measures 755 × 1000 px. The actual museum photograph has a native file of 6,048 × 8,064 px, converted to WebP of 3,750 × 5,000 px for Shopify, without enlargement. The detail measures 390 × 620 px. The three files are decodable and verified.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
Grenoble MG 2168, Wildenstein 1878
This oil on canvas from 1917 measures 117 × 83 cm, or 130 × 102 cm with its frame. It is signed and dated lower right, bears the inventory number MG 2168 and corresponds to the Wildenstein 1878 catalog.
Entrance to the Grenoble Museum in 1923
The work was donated by Claude Monet himself in 1923. It thus entered the collection while the artist was still working on the large compositions of his water garden.
A selected work in Giverny
After asking Monet, curator Andry-Farcy is invited to come and choose a painting in Giverny. He remembers this Corner of the pond, offered according to the museum to encourage modern trends in the Grenoble collection.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version of the Grenoble Museum, MG 2168 and W1878
- The original vertical format of 117 × 83 cm
- The large bank curve preserved without artificial regularity
- Red, white and yellow accents precisely placed in the blues
Work sheet
| Title | Corner of the pond in Giverny, Grenoble W1878 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1917 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 117 × 83 cm |
| Orientation | Vertical |
| Conservation | Grenoble Museum, Grenoble, France |
| Inventory | MG 2168 · Wildenstein 1878 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Cobalt blue, turquoise, moss green, bright yellow and orange-red give this reproduction a very colorful vertical presence. It is suitable for a high wall, an entrance or a clear living room, with dark wood, a cream wall and side lighting that reveals the material.
