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Each water lily combines turquoise, purple, blue and green. A thin red or pink accent is sometimes enough to separate the leaf from the water, without drawing a regular border.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1916 -1919 · Metropolitan Museum · W1858
Nearly two meters wide, the pool becomes a very dark blue-green surface where turquoise, purple and almost black leaves float. Red flowers appear in small foci, while long light marks fall like willow reflections. The photograph taken in front of the work at the Metropolitan Museum allows us to see its real scale and the density of its late material.

Look at the work
The composition is entirely occupied by water. On the left, high touches of cream and lavender descend between large turquoise blue leaves. Towards the center, the water lilies turn purple and their red contours detach them from the bottom. No horizon sets the distance: depth depends only on superpositions, changes of scale and differences in brightness.
The right half is denser and colder. Deep blues, emerald greens and colorful blacks surround some orange-red flowers. At the bottom, the vertical touches lengthen before meeting a lighter border, left visible in places. This peripheral breathing reminds us that Monet constructs the pelvis in successive layers rather than through a uniformly filled image.
The surface immediately remains aquatic, but each group of leaves can also be read as an autonomous shape placed in an almost abstract field.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.

Each water lily combines turquoise, purple, blue and green. A thin red or pink accent is sometimes enough to separate the leaf from the water, without drawing a regular border.
The cream and lavender marks are mainly vertical. They evoke the branches of the willow while organizing luminous intervals between the masses of leaves.
The background is never black. Prussian blue, deep green, purple and brown form a dark material in which the red flowers retain their intensity.
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 Metropolitan Museum's Open Access scan measures 3,811 × 2,486 px. A real photograph of the work at the museum, measuring 4,272 × 2,744 px, completes a native detail of 1,700 × 1,500 px. No files have been artificially enlarged; all three media are real decodable WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
The Metropolitan Museum dates this oil on canvas from 1916 -1919 and indicates dimensions of 130.2 × 200.7 cm. The work bears the accession number 1983.532 and corresponds to number 1858 of the Wildenstein catalog raisonné.
The Met explains that Monet had his pond dug and planted in 1893. When he undertook this painting at the end of the 1910s, the pond was no longer described as a landscape: it became the starting point for a language fluid, daring and close to abstraction.
The museum's credit line identifies the work as a donation by Louise Reinhardt Smith made in 1983. It is now on display at Met Fifth Avenue among European paintings, in the gallery dedicated to Monet and Impressionism.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Water Lilies, Metropolitan Museum W1858 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1916 - 1919 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 130.2 × 200.7 cm |
| Orientation | Panoramic horizontal |
| Conservation | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States |
| Inventory | 1983.532 · Wildenstein 1858 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Midnight blue, emerald green, turquoise, plum purple and coral red give this panoramic reproduction a deep presence. It is suitable for a wide wall, above a sofa or low sideboard, with soft side light that reveals dark layers without crushing colorful accents.
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