À propos de l’œuvre
Les Nymphéas : Matin, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1914 -1926 · Orangery · INV 20101
Morning, The Water Lilieshand painted reproduction
A milky blue light spreads over the pool among countless water lilies. Three panels form an expanse of twelve and seventy-five meters where plants, reflections and water follow one another without shore or horizon.
Look at the work
Morning light unifies twelve meters of flowers, reflections and water
Groups of water lilies are more numerous near the ends and the lower part. In the center, more open blue-purple passages give the water a calm depth. The green tufts that descend from the top introduce vertical rhythms.
Monet constantly varies the density of the material. Some leaves are legible ovals, others dissolve in long blue, pink and green touches. This alternation allows the gaze to circulate between the nearby surface and the deeper reflections.
Morning does not represent an hour by a visible sky: morning mildness is entirely contained in the water temperature and key spacing.
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.
Three panels connected by color
The blues and water lily lines visually cross the junctions. Continuity must remain natural without transforming the whole into a perfectly uniform band.
Groups of flowers separated by breaths
Water lilies are numerous but never distributed as a motif. Areas of open water give rhythm to plant masses.
Milky light without general lightening
Whites, pale blues and pinks float in denser greens and purples. Preserving these gaps avoids rendering that is too light and without depth.
Details and visual documents
Observe the material and the exact version
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 Google Art Project scan measures 8,902 × 1,402 px and the detail 3,600 × 1,402 px. The official photograph of the room measures 850 × 286 px. No files have been enlarged; all three images are real WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
The INV 20101 inventory in three panels
Created between 1914 and 1926, Matin brings together three oil panels on canvas, joined together and mounted on the wall. The whole measures 200 × 1,275 cm.
The south wall of the first Water Lilies room
The museum presents this composition in the first oval room. It participates in the continuum of time and space imagined by Monet to envelop the viewer.
The great decor offered to France
Matin is part of the donation approved in 1922. The panels have been installed according to Monet's project and accessible to the public at the Orangerie since 1927.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact INV 20101 set in three panels
- The monumental ratio of 200 × 1,275 cm
- Groups of water lilies separated by open water
- Blue light preserved without standardizing the material
Work sheet
| Title | Morning, The Water Lilies |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1914 - 1926 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 200 × 1,275 cm in total |
| Orientation | Three monumental panoramic panels |
| Conservation | Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France |
| Inventory | INV 20101 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Purple blue, deep green, pinkish white and turquoise give this reproduction a fresh and contemplative atmosphere. Its panoramic format is suitable for a large off-white, pearl gray, midnight blue or sage green wall.
