À propos de l’œuvre
L'étang aux nymphéas, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1919 · Tel Aviv Museum of Art · W1893-1
Water Lily Pond, Tel Aviv W1893-1hand painted reproduction
In this vertical pool, the pink water lilies descend diagonally from blue-gray water to a green and purple depth. The absence of a bank transforms the painting into a moving surface, while the actual photograph reveals the thick reliefs left by the brush.
Look at the work
A diagonal of flowers connects the light from above to the depths of the pool
The upper part remains light, crossed by blues, grays and pale yellows. Small pink flowers float at a distance from each other. Lower down, the leaves become larger and the greens denser, which moves the foreground forward without the aid of a horizon line.
On the right, a mauve and light blue area evokes the reflection of the sky; on the left, olive green and almost black masses suggest the trees at the edge. Vertical brushstrokes and visible impasto hold together the reflection and material surface of the water.
The 1919 basin is neither a landscape seen from afar nor a still life: it places the gaze above the water, between real depth, reflections of the sky and thickness of the painting.
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 rare vertical composition for the pool
The 100 × 92 cm format lowers the gaze along the flowers. Depth depends on their size and spacing rather than a traditional perspective.
Hot roses on cooled greens
The red and salmon pink water lilies are the brightest accents. They must remain punctual so that the blue-purple and olive-green passages retain their dominant role.
A material truly visible on the canvas
The photograph taken at the museum shows reliefs, repetitions and superimposed gestures. Oil reproduction should vary the thickness instead of flattening these passages into simple flat colored areas.
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 full view measures 4,141 × 4,400 px and the detail 4,300 × 3,400 px, from an actual photograph of 8,794 × 9,344 px. The frame view measures 930 × 962 px. No file has been enlarged; all three images are real WebPs.
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.
Water Lily Pond, Wildenstein 1893-1
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents this oil on canvas under the title Water Lily Pond. It is dated 1919, measures 100 × 92 cm and corresponds to number 1893-1 of the catalog raisonné.
Long-term loan Moshe and Sara Mayer
The work is kept at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as part of a long-term loan from the Moshe and Sara Mayer collection. This mention allows us to distinguish this version from the numerous basins painted by Monet.
The original photographed at the museum
The high definition close-up view shows the texture of the canvas and the impasto; the photograph with the frame documents the actual presentation of the work and its vertical format.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version from 1919, Wildenstein 1893-1
- The original vertical format of 100 × 92 cm
- The descending diagonal of pink water lilies
- The impasto visible in the actual photograph of the museum
Work sheet
| Title | Water Lily Pond, Tel Aviv W1893-1 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1919 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 100 × 92 cm |
| Orientation | Vertical |
| Conservation | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Inventory | Loan Moshe and Sara Mayer · Wildenstein 1893-1 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Olive green, mist blue, mauve and water lily pink give this reproduction a deep but soothing presence. Its vertical format is suitable for a narrow wall, between two openings or above a base unit.
