À propos de l’œuvre
Le jardin de l'artiste à Giverny, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1900 · Yale University Art Gallery · W1622
The Artist's Garden in Giverny, Yale W1622hand painted reproduction
A pink path sinks between the iris beds and the fruit trees of Clos Normand. Monet does not paint a garden ordered like a plan: he superimposes mauves, greens, pinks and yellows until he makes each step towards the house a crossing of color.
Look at the work
The path shares the garden without interrupting the abundance of flowers
The path starts from the lower right edge, tightens in the center then disappears under the branches. Its warm pink forms the only relatively continuous surface of the canvas. All around, purple irises, red roses and foliage are built in small overlapping touches.
The thin trunks give a vertical structure in the foreground. Their irregular curves frame the path without creating strict symmetry. In the upper part, the crowns meet and almost close the sky: the light seems to come from flowers, yellow greens and turquoise passages rather than from an external source.
Monet makes the alley a passage in the middle of the painting itself: the flowers do not simply line the path, they advance on him and gradually dissolve his perspective.
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.
A perspective drawn by a pink band
The path provides the main axis, but its edges remain open and eaten by flowers. Faithful reproduction must maintain this depth without drawing two rigid lines.
Purple irises spread over several planes
The flowers in the foreground are large and bluish; those at the bottom become small touches of purple. Their change of scale gives distance in the middle of very dense vegetation.
Fruit trees as a flexible framework
The brown and purple trunks cross the greens but never stand out in clear silhouettes. They organize the look while remaining caught in the colorful light of the garden.
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 full view measures 4,400 × 4,316 px; the two native cropping measures 2,500 × 3,000 px and 3,000 × 2,500 px. The scan comes from Yale's official IIIF service and all three files 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.
Yale 1983.7.12, Wildenstein 1622
Yale dates this oil on canvas to 1900, measures 89.5 × 92.1 cm and identifies it under the accession number 1983.7.12. Monet's catalog raisonné lists it under number 1622.
From Monet's studio to Paul and Rachel Mellon
The notice traces a possible visit to Georges Bernheim in 1918, then to Sir Alfred Chester Beatty and Mrs AE Pleydell-Bouverie. Wildenstein then sold it to Paul and Rachel Mellon, who gave it to Yale in 1983.
The flower garden becomes a constructed subject
In Giverny, Monet transforms the land in front of his house into masses of successive flowering. In this canvas, the path and the fruit trees give a framework to a deliberately abundant garden.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version Yale 1983.7.12, Wildenstein 1622
- The almost square ratio of 89.5 × 92.1 cm
- The readable pink path without hard contours
- The variety of mauves, greens and reds in the flowerbeds
Work sheet
| Title | The Artist's Garden in Giverny, Yale W1622 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1900 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 89.5 × 92.1 cm |
| Orientation | Almost square |
| Conservation | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States |
| Inventory | 1983.7.12 · Wildenstein 1622 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Garden green, iris mauve, earth pink and luminous yellow make up a generous palette. This reproduction brings depth to an off-white, linen, sage green or very pale pink wall, in a living room, entrance or bedroom.
