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Navires dans un port W259 par Claude Monet, vers 1873, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Ships in a port W259 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Tall sailboats in the port of Le Havre · Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Ships in a W259 porthand painted reproduction

Large sailing ships stand in a port basin, their masts, yards and ropes cutting through a pink gray sky. The dark hull of the central boat occupies almost the entire width, while smaller boats tighten to the right. Around 1873, Monet probably described Le Havre by blues, purples, greens and pinks rather than the gray expected of an overcast day.

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Ships in a port W259 - Claude Monet - full view
Ships in a W259 portClaude Monet · around 1873
around 1873Dating
49.8 × 61 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
06.117 · Wildenstein 259Inventory
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Masts erect a forest of lines above fragmented water

The main ship is seen almost in profile, with a dark bow on the left and a long hull resting on the water line. Its masts rise to the upper edge and support folded sails, yards and numerous ropes.

On the right, the silhouettes of the buildings overlap and decrease. At the bottom, the reflections are painted in horizontal blue, white, green and pink lines. A few darker vertical passages connect the hulls to the water.

The port appears complex without being carefully described: the parallel touches at the same time assemble the water, the reflections and the silent movement of the ships.

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

A composition without a clear horizon

The boats fill the field and almost completely hide the shore. This proximity gives the viewer the impression of being themselves at pool level.

02

The masts organize the sky

Their vertical rhythm varies in height, thickness and inclination. The horizontal yards cross them and transform the upper part into a very constructed network.

03

An overcast day painted with bold colors

The MFA describes a range of muffled blues, purples, greens and pinks. Monet vibrates these pigments side by side instead of melting them into a uniform grayness.

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The visual corresponds to Ships in a Port, circa 1873, inventory 06.117 of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and catalog Wildenstein 259. The unique WebP measures 1,600 × 1,324 px, maximum definition of the exact public file available, without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

The central hull contains several planes

Bluish blacks, grays, greens and browns describe the bow, flank and water line. A single dark tone would remove its structure.

Color02

The ropes remain thin but irregular

They must not form a mechanical grid. Some lines interrupt or merge with the keys of the sky.

Matter03

Water is built in separate strips

Blue, pink and white lines vary in length and intensity. Their juxtaposition produces lapping without continuous contour.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Painted around 1873, this oil on canvas measures 49.8 × 61 cm. It is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston under inventory 06.117 and listed as Wildenstein 259.

Probable location01

The native port of Le Havre

The MFA documentation probably places the scene in Le Havre, where Monet has known basins, tall ships and industrial transformations since childhood.

Provenance02

From Durand-Ruel to Denman Waldo Ross

After a stint at Durand-Ruel, the painting was purchased by the Boston collector Denman Waldo Ross in 1897. He donated it to the museum in 1906.

Number03

Historical inventory 06.117

The prefix 06 recalls the year of entry into the MFA collections. The painting belongs to one of the most important Monet sets kept outside France.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Maintain the dark mass of the central ship.
  • Vary the network of masts and ropes.
  • Preserve the pink and purple colors of the sky.
  • Construct water with distinct horizontal keys.

Work sheet

Title Ships in a W259 port
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date around 1873
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 49.8 × 61 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
Inventory 06.117 · Wildenstein 259
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Ships in a Harbor, 06.117

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A palette designed with the room

This navy is suitable for a living room, office or room facing the water. A midnight blue, weathered black or old silver frame accompanies the hulls; a pearl gray, gray pink or pale blue wall reveals the sky.

Ships in a W259 port, painted for your interior

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