A sunset without uniform orange
Warm light contains creamy yellow, pink and blue. Lighter areas should remain nuanced to avoid flat or artificially golden skies.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1899 · Giverny · W1619
Under an orange-yellow sky, a row of leaning poplars is reflected in frozen water covered by skaters. The silhouettes are tiny, but their attitudes and trajectories give the scene an unexpected energy. The roses and blues placed in the trees cool the evening light without turning it off.

Look at the work
The edge line crosses the canvas a little above the middle. The trunks rise in tight diagonals, leaning from left to right, then dissolve into a crown of orange, pink, mauve and blue touches. The clear sky remains visible between the branches and prevents the wooded mass from closing.
On the ice, the characters are indicated by some blue-purple and red-brown accents. A lone skater slides to the left while a denser group gathers on the right. The long cream, blue and pink touches in the foreground follow their movements and give direction to the frozen surface.
The rigidity of winter is contradicted by two parallel movements: the tilt of poplars in the air and the running of skaters on the ice.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.

Warm light contains creamy yellow, pink and blue. Lighter areas should remain nuanced to avoid flat or artificially golden skies.
Poplars do not form a regular stockade. Their height, inclination and density continually change, creating the main movement of the composition.
A few touches are enough to distinguish skaters. Their scale and spacing must be respected: enlarging them would transform the landscape into a genre scene.
Details and visual documents
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 actual photograph at Museum Barberini measures 4,303 × 3,430 px. The main view of 3,224 × 2,418 px is a native cropping of the canvas within its frame; the full photograph and detail of 1,800 × 1,500 px are not enlarged. All three files are real WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
The Museum Barberini dates the work to 1899. This oil on canvas measuring 60 × 80 cm bears a slightly distinct Claude Monet stamp at the bottom right and appears under number 1619 of the catalog raisonné.
The published provenance mentions Michel Monet, Otto Wertheimer in Paris, M. Knoedler in New York, an American collection, then Harry and Yvonne Lenart. Sold at Sotheby's New York on November 3, 2010, the painting joined the art market in July 2014 before the current collection.
The work was notably presented at the Museum Barberini in 2017 and 2020, at the Denver Art Museum in 2019 -2020, then in the exhibition dedicated to artists and sport at the Marmottan Monet Museum in 2024.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Skaters in Giverny, Barberini W1619 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1899 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60 × 80 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Museum Barberini, Hasso Plattner collection, Potsdam, Germany |
| Inventory | MB-Mon-29 · Wildenstein 1619 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Cream yellow, salmon pink, lavender blue and purple brown produce a bright winter atmosphere. This horizontal reproduction matches off-white, sand or pearl gray walls and medium woods, in a living room, entrance or above an office.
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