The fence gives depth before the landscape
Its slats decrease and approach each other going up to the left. This discreet shortcut leads to the houses and makes you feel the slope of the land without resorting to a central path.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1885 · W975
A clear fence borders an intense green meadow at the bottom of the Val de Falaise. Behind it, the houses and pruned trees stand out in front of a hillside where ochres, pinks and cold blues mingle under a winter sky. This oil on canvas measuring 65.4 × 80.5 cm, signed "Claude Monet 85", belongs to the Gabriele and Werner Merzbacher collection and is on permanent loan to the Kunsthaus Zürich under the number MB 0007. It corresponds to Wildenstein 975.

Look at the work
The barrier starts from the lower right edge, runs along the green of the meadow then disappears before the houses. Its diagonal gives an entrance to the view and contrasts a light geometry with the gnarled trunks erected in the center. The buildings remain fragmentary: a few white sections, gray roofs and blue shadows are enough to locate the habitat in the hollow of the slope.
The hillside fills almost the entire upper right. Monet superimposes straw yellow, orange, mauve and blue without smoothing the passages. On the left, the cold sky descends to the fine trees; on the right, the low light warms the relief. The green foreground thus maintains a bright freshness facing warmer lands.
The season is told not by a white coat, but by leafless trees, low light and the unexpected accord of a still green meadow with scorched lands.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Its slats decrease and approach each other going up to the left. This discreet shortcut leads to the houses and makes you feel the slope of the land without resorting to a central path.
Their dark silhouette stands out against the light hillside. They are neither aligned nor of the same height: their intervals reveal walls, roofs and variations in terrain.
The saturated meadow responds to the ochres of the hillside, while blues connect the sky, shadows and distant trees. This circulation of complements maintains unity despite a very contrasting palette.
Reference image
The single image exactly reproduces the MB 0007 version. Scanning 4,848 × 3,966 px is limited to 3,000 × 2,454 px, without artificial enlargement, then encoded as a real WebP.
It must remain visible without becoming a rigid line. Its inclination and the progressive spacing of the slats regulate the depth from the foreground to the houses.
This green is not a modern correction: it belongs to the colored balance of W975. It must remain bright while receiving blue and brown shadows near trees.
Colors do not describe every botanical detail. The relief appears in small superimposed touches, warmer on the lit slopes and colder in the hollows.
Documented benchmarks
The Kunsthaus Zürich file documents Winter Landscape at the Val de Falaise, oil on canvas from 1885, 65.4 × 80.5 cm, MB 0007 inventory and Wildenstein 975 catalog.
Established in Giverny since 1883, Monet explores the neighboring valleys, hillsides and hamlets. This narrow view differs from the vast river horizons of Vétheuil and Argenteuil.
The dated signature is integrated into the warm touches in the foreground. It directly confirms the year 1885 indicated by the museum catalog.
The painting belongs to the Gabriele and Werner Merzbacher collection. Kunsthaus Zürich registers it under number MB 0007 and publishes it with its French, German and English titles.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Winter landscape at the Falaise Valley W975 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1885 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.4 × 80.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Kunsthaus Zürich, loan from the Gabriele and Werner Merzbacher collection, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Inventory | MB 0007 · Wildenstein 975 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
The horizontal format is suitable for a living room, office or dining room. A gray green, soft ocher or mist blue wall and a natural oak frame extend the seasonal richness without softening the meadow.
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