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L’Aiguille et la Porte d’Aval vues en amont W1042 par Claude Monet, Kreeger Museum
  • L’Aiguille et la Porte d’Aval vues en amont W1042 par Claude Monet, Kreeger Museum
  • L’Aiguille et la Porte d’Aval vues en amont W1042 par Claude Monet, Kreeger Museum
The Needle and the Downstream Gate W1042 - Claude Monet

The Needle and the Downstream Gate W1042 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Étretat · 1886 · W1042

The Needle and the Downstream Gate W1042hand painted reproduction

The Aiguille d'Étretat stands alone on the left, facing the large cliff pierced by the Porte d'Aval. The calm sea occupies more than half of the canvas and extends the rocks with blue, pink and gray reflections. Signed and dated Claude Monet 86, this oil on vertical canvas measuring 81 × 65 cm is kept at the Kreeger Museum under number 1963.14 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1042.

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The Needle and the Downstream Gate W1042Claude Monet · 1886
1886Dating
81 × 65 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
1963.14 · Wildenstein 1042Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

Two rock masses suspended above their reflections

The Needle rises from the water without touching the left edge. On the right, the wider cliff is cut by a clear arch which reveals the sky. The large interval between the two rocks becomes a luminous passage towards the horizon.

Bluish gray, mauve, pink and green shape the stone without dominant brown. The water takes on these colors in the form of more diffuse horizontal touches, while the very clear sky reduces contrasts and envelops the pattern with a uniform mist.

The vertical format not only monumentalizes the cliffs: it also gives an unusual depth to the column of reflections that descends to the foreground.

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 view from the west

The museum identifies this precise viewpoint from the Étretat series. The Needle is isolated on the left and the Porte d'Aval opens into the right cliff.

02

A balance between full and empty

The two rocks are separated by a large space of sky and sea. The ark adds a second, smaller void, which repeats this breathing.

03

Reflections that prolong the composition

The color of the cliffs descends into the water but gradually fragments. The foreground remains mobile and colder than the rock masses.

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Only one exact image of W1042 is used in the listing and as the sole Shopify media. The real WebP measures 736 × 923 px, respects the proportions of the canvas and has not undergone any artificial enlargement.

Composition01

Maintain Needle isolation

The clear space around its silhouette is essential to the readability of W1042.

Color02

Preserve the bright opening of the Downstream Gate

The ark must not close in shadow; it must reveal the sky and the horizon.

Matter03

Keep the area of reflections long

The foreground should retain its blues, pinks and grays in soft horizontal touches.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Kreeger Museum documents The Needle and the Downstream Gate seen from the west, oil on canvas from 1886, 81 × 65 cm, accession 1963.14 and Wildenstein catalog 1042.

Series01

The same site painted under several lights

Monet takes the Aiguille and the arches of Étretat from different points on the coast. Each painting associates a precise topography with a particular state of the air and the sea.

Acquisition02

A work entered into the Kreeger collection in 1963

David and Carmen Kreeger acquired the painting before the museum opened. Issue 1963.14 preserves traces of this ancient entrance.

Signature03

Claude Monet 86 lower right

The dated signature is visible near the lower edge and confirms the campaign of 1886, when Monet multiplied his views of the Normandy coast.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The Wildenstein 1042 version
  • The isolated Needle on the left
  • The clear arch of the Downstream Gate
  • The long column of reflections in the sea

Work sheet

Title The Needle and the Downstream Gate W1042
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1886
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81 × 65 cm
Orientation Vertical
Conservation Kreeger Museum, Washington DC., United States
Inventory 1963.14 · Wildenstein 1042
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Kreeger Museum · 1963.14

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This vertical composition is suitable for an entrance, bookcase or wall between two openings. A blue gray, light purple or cool white wall and a sober frame highlight its mist.

The Needle and the Downstream Door W1042, painted for your interior

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