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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1894 · Shelburne 1972-69.4 · W1390
The church of Vernon floats in a pink, blue and pale yellow fog. The square tower rises above an almost erased bank, while its reflection descends into the Seine without forming a symmetrical image. Monet reduces houses and trees to a few colored masses in order to make visible the luminous thickness of the air.
Look at the work
The building is located slightly to the left of the center. Its tower, the only clearly vertical shape, extends into the water by a purple trail. On the right, a mass of blue trees balances the building. The rest of the bank remains very low and leaves plenty of room for the sky and the Seine.
The values are deliberately brought together. Pink, creamy yellow, lavender blue and purple meet without a sharp edge. The touches of the tower are a little more compact; those of the sky and the water are more melted, which allows the church to emerge without being drawn.
In W1390, the fog does not erase the subject: it becomes its structure and transforms the church into a colorful apparition.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Monet worked around Vernon in 1894, a few kilometers from Giverny. By placing the Seine in the foreground, it separates the viewer from the city and can simultaneously study the real silhouette of the church and its dissolution in reflection.
The square mass of the tower remains identifiable despite the fog. Its edges are flexible, but its vertical organizes the whole. Faithful reproduction must avoid both the clean outline and the complete erasure of this shape.
Blues and mauves move away from the shore, while light pinks and yellows advance in the mist. This game replaces classic contrasts and gives the painting its feeling of humid space.
Reference image
The single reference image measures 3,200 × 2,281 px. The Shelburne Museum file has since been reduced to 3,408 px wide and converted into a real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
The vertical of the tower continues downwards, but the reflection is broken and wider. This continuity connects the city to the Seine without producing an exact mirror.
The palette remains very clear. The purple passages give weight to the church and the trees, while the yellow maintains a diffuse light in the sky.
The touches of the building are tighter than those of the atmosphere. The painter responsible for reproduction must preserve this difference without transforming the facade into a Gothic detail.
Documented benchmarks
This information relates exactly to The Church of Vernon, fog from the Shelburne Museum, 1972-69.4 and Wildenstein 1390.
This oil on canvas from 1894 measures 25 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches, or approximately 64.8 × 90.2 cm.
The work belongs to the impressionist ensemble brought together by Louisine and Henry Havemeyer with the advice of Mary Cassatt, then passed on to their daughter Electra Havemeyer Webb.
The painting is numbered 1972-69.4 and is presented by the Shelburne Museum in rooms evoking the New York home of its founder.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Church of Vernon, fog W1390 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1894 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 64.8 × 90.2 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, United States |
| Inventory | 1972-69.4 · Wildenstein 1390 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Misty pink, lavender blue, creamy yellow, mauve and gray green make up a luminous and silent reproduction. It matches light walls, ecru fabrics and natural woods, in a bedroom, living room or office.
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