A diagonal formed by the tails
The long feathers lead the gaze from the center to the right and balance the small birds grouped on the left.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · A still life of 1879 · Minneapolis Institute of Art
Two pheasants and several plovers are arranged on a white tablecloth, in front of an almost bare blue gray background. Brown, black, red and silver plumages concentrate all the chromatic richness. Monet transforms this game into a study of matter, weight and retained light.

Look at the work
The two pheasants occupy the center and the foreground. Their massive bodies cross slightly, their long tails run towards the edges and their dark heads rest on the tablecloth. Around them, gray and white plovers create shorter and lighter volumes.
The tablecloth descends towards the viewer in large pale blue and ivory folds. The gray background, covered with discreet variations, removes any anecdote. This sobriety forces the eye to follow the differences in texture: fine feathers, glossy wings, beaks, legs and crumpled fabric.
Here, light does not describe a landscape: it reveals the weight of birds, the direction of feathers and the folds of the tablecloth.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The long feathers lead the gaze from the center to the right and balance the small birds grouped on the left.
Ochres, reds, blacks, greens and golden highlights mingle in the pheasants. Color prevents their volumes from becoming two dark masses.
The tablecloth and plovers use different whites, tinged with blue, gray or pink. These shades organize the plans and contacts.
Reference image
The high definition image corresponds to canvas 84.140, W550, from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It allows you to observe the direction of the plumages, the design of the wings and the very fine transitions between the tablecloth and the light birds.
The birds are grouped near the table plane, leaving a role of breathing and contrast at the empty bottom.
Blue gray, ivory, brown and red dominate. Some green or golden highlights appear only in the feathers.
The gesture lengthens on the tails, tightens on the wings and becomes wider in the folds of the fabric and the bottom.
Documented benchmarks
The Minneapolis Institute of Art preserves this still life under inventory 84,140; it corresponds to number 550 of the Wildenstein catalog raisonné.
The painting is also described under this French title; the museum's identification distinguishes the pheasants from the plovers placed around them.
With almost 90 cm in width, the composition gives the birds an almost life-size presence and makes the white of the tablecloth a real space.
The work enters the Minneapolis Institute of Art in memory of John DeCoster Rogers and bears inventory 84,140.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Still life with pheasants and plovers W550 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1879 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 67.95 × 90.17 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, United States |
| Inventory | 84,140 · Wildenstein 550 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This still life offers a more serious presence than Monet's landscapes. Its blue grays, whites and red browns are suitable for a dining room, a library or an interior with natural materials; a walnut, soft black or bronze frame gives it a beautiful depth.
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