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Meule, soleil dans la brume W1286 de Claude Monet – Minneapolis Institute of Art 93.20
  • Meule, soleil dans la brume W1286 de Claude Monet – Minneapolis Institute of Art 93.20
  • Meule, soleil dans la brume W1286 de Claude Monet – Minneapolis Institute of Art 93.20
Grindstone, sun in the mist W1286 - Claude Monet

Grindstone, sun in the mist W1286 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · 1891 · Series of Grinding Wheels · W1286

Grindstone, sun in the mist W1286hand painted reproduction

A single dark gerbier emerges from a pink mist at daybreak, surrounded by a halo that blurs the separation between the field and the sky. This 60 × 100.3 cm oil on canvas, painted in 1891, belongs to the Minneapolis Institute of Art under number 93.20 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1286.

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Grindstone, sun in the mist W1286Claude Monet · 1891
1891Dating
60 × 100.3 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
93.20 · Wildenstein 1286Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

A gerbier becomes the center of a luminous atmosphere

The millstone is placed slightly to the left of the center and occupies less than half the height. Around it, the vast horizontal format lets the fog breathe. The horizon is barely indicated: the depth comes mainly from the light halo, the purple mass and its cold shadow in the foreground.

The sky and field share roses, creamy yellows and lilacs. The millstone concentrates the densest purples, but its crest receives an orange accent which signals the emerging sun. Broken touches of blue, yellow and mauve enliven the ground without breaking the unity of the mist.

W1286 reduces the landscape to three presences: the millstone, its shadow and a light that dissolves almost everything else.

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

An appearance in the mist

The light halo around the gerbier is not a white outline. It results from very close passages in value, where pink, cream and pale blue meet. This transition must remain gentle to maintain the atmospheric effect.

02

Dawn rather than full sun

The Minneapolis Institute of Art describes an autumn light at daybreak: the sun begins to burn away the rising mist. Warm colors therefore appear in still cold and diffuse air.

03

A material readable at two distances

Up close, brushstrokes are very visible and sometimes thick; as they move back, they gather in field, steam and shadow. Reproduction must maintain this double reading rather than smooth the surface.

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Only one image is used: the high definition reproduction of version 93.20, converted into a true WebP of 3,000 × 1,791 px from a source of 5,801 × 3,463 px, without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

A large active vacuum

The 100.3 cm wide format reserves plenty of space around the pattern. This void is not uniform: fine horizontal variations circulate the air and avoid a flat bottom.

Color02

A pink and purple range

The dark millstone remains colored, with purples, red browns and blues. It gains its density by contrast with light pinks, not by the use of black.

Matter03

Short gestures that merge remotely

The material of the field is constructed by interrupted touches. Their direction and density must vary so that they become light as the viewer moves away.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Minneapolis Institute of Art preserves Grainstack, Sun in the Mist, oil on canvas from 1891, 60 × 100.3 cm, inventory 93.20.

Pattern01

The Giverny gerbiers

These large structures, several meters high, protected the cereals from rain and rodents. Monet observed them in a field near his house, under changing effects.

Moment02

Autumn morning

The rising sun warms the upper part of the mist while the shadow retains cold blues. The painting captures the brief passage between morning fog and brighter light.

Collection03

Minneapolis, inventory 93.20

Number 93.20 distinguishes this large panoramic canvas from the many other millstones from 1890 -1891, whose formats, silhouettes and lighting effects differ.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The exact version 93.20, Wildenstein 1286
  • The original panoramic format of 60 × 100.3 cm
  • The clear halo without hard contour around the grinding wheel
  • The balance between warm roses and bluish purple shadows

Work sheet

Title Grindstone, sun in the mist W1286
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1891
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60 × 100.3 cm
Orientation Panoramic horizontal
Conservation Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, United States
Inventory 93.20 · Wildenstein 1286
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Minneapolis Institute of Art · 93.20

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This very gentle panorama is suitable above a sofa, headboard or sideboard. Pinkish beige walls, smoked wood and lilac gray textiles prolong the fog while letting the millstone retain its anchoring role.

Grindstone, sun in mist W1286, painted for your interior

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