A dark mass in the foreground
The large millstone is not centered. Its visual weight on the right balances the succession of small shapes, poplars and hills to the left.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1889 · W900
A large dark millstone dominates a green meadow, while two smaller millstones and a row of poplars retreat towards the heights of Giverny. This oil on canvas measuring 64.5 × 81 cm, painted in 1889, is kept at the Pushkin Museum under number 0.3398 and corresponds to Wildenstein 900.

Look at the work
The main grinding wheel is thrown to the right and occupies almost the entire height of the field. On the left, a smaller grinding wheel receives more light; their difference in scale builds distance.
The purple brown of the straw responds to the greens and blues of the grass. Behind, the fine trunks of the poplars cut out a vertical screen in front of the lighter hills.
W900 precedes the systematic cycle of 1890 -1891: the wheel pattern is already used to record a precise light effect rather than a simple agricultural scene.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The large millstone is not centered. Its visual weight on the right balances the succession of small shapes, poplars and hills to the left.
The cold shadow of the nearby millstone and the warmer light of the background indicate a low sun coming from the left. Color shapes volumes without hard contours.
The dimensions of 64.5 × 81 cm, the inventory of the Pushkin Museum and Wildenstein 900 identify this old version among the millstones of Giverny.
Reference image
Only one reference image is used. The exact scan of α-3398 is converted to a true WebP of 3000 × 2410 px, without artificial enlargement.
The large nearby millstone, the small illuminated millstone and the third shape in the distance must maintain their proportions so that the meadow recedes naturally.
The main volume contains brown, mauve, blue and green. A uniform brown would suppress evening vibrations.
The tight touches of the millstone contrast with the horizontal passages of the grass and the vertical lines of the poplars.
Documented benchmarks
The Pushkin Museum preserves Meule near Giverny, oil on canvas from 1889, 64.5 × 81 cm, inventory 4-3398 and Wildenstein 900.
Monet works in a grassy area bordered by an arm of the Epte. The millstones visible here are haystacks, different from the wheat shepherds of the following cycle.
Ivan Morozov acquired the painting in 1907. After the nationalization of his collection, the work was attributed to the Pushkin Museum in 1948.
W900 belongs to previous research which prepared the group of twenty-five millstones painted in series between 1890 and 1891.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Grinding wheel near Giverny W900 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1889 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 64.5 × 81 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia |
| Inventory | α-3398 · Wildenstein 900 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This calm landscape is suitable for a living room, bedroom or office. A gray green wall, oak and tobacco brown or muted blue textiles enhance the evening light.
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