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Claude Monet · 1908 · Met 59.188.1 · W1755
From the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, the Doge's Palace appears beyond a wide expanse of lagoon. The pale pink facade, the campanile and the Riva degli Schiavoni dissolve into a blue and purple air. A small dark boat is enough to measure the immensity of the water and the distance from the monument.
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The horizon is placed near the middle and leaves the water with a magnitude equal to that of the sky. The palace occupies the center left; the campanile of Saint-Marc rises behind it and the buildings of the Riva extend the city to the right. In the foreground, a gondola reduces the architecture to a distant appearance.
The facade is neither white nor beige. It receives roses, pale yellows, blues and purples which are repeated in the lagoon in the form of long horizontal touches. The lighter sky contains the same color families, creating the luminous envelope sought by Monet in Venice.
W1755 maintains its balance from a precise distance: far enough for the city to blend into the atmosphere, close enough for the palace arcades to remain perceptible.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Monet looks towards the palace from the island on the other side of the Saint-Marc basin. This distance opens a large interval of water between the painter and the city. The composition should therefore not be cropped too tightly: the lagoon is an integral part of the subject.
The Wildenstein catalog brings together under numbers 1751 to 1756 six views close to the palace from San Giorgio. The Metropolitan Museum's canvas is W1755; its format of 65.4 × 92.7 cm and its number 59.188.1 distinguish it from the W1756 version of the Guggenheim.
Monet began these paintings in Venice in 1908 then took them back to Giverny. The Metropolitan Museum recalls that twenty-nine views were finally exhibited in Paris in 1912. The instant effect thus resulted from slow repetitions and carefully adjusted colored ratios.
Reference image
The single reference image measures 2,200 × 1,566 px. It has been preserved at its native definition and re-encoded into a real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
The urban silhouette forms a relatively thin strip. The sky and the lagoon dominate, while the campanile provides the main vertical axis and the gondola a very dark counterpoint.
Warm colors of the palate cool in the reflection. Cobalt accents support the foreground and prevent pastel tones from becoming bland or decorative.
The surface of the water is constructed by interrupted bands, sometimes thick, which advance towards the viewer. The lighter touches of the sky, on the contrary, let the light background breathe.
Documented benchmarks
This information concerns precisely canvas 59.188.1 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, listed Wildenstein 1755.
The work is an oil on canvas from 1908 measuring 65.4 × 92.7 cm. It bears the English title The Palazzo Ducale Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore and belongs to the European paintings department of the Met.
The painting entered the Metropolitan Museum in 1959 thanks to a donation from Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh. Its object number 59.188.1 must accompany any precise identification of this version.
Monet discovered Venice in the fall of 1908. He chose four large groups of motifs and began his days with views of the palace from San Giorgio, when the light gave the facade a clear and diffuse presence.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Doge's Palace seen from San Giorgio Maggiore W1755 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1908 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.4 × 92.7 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States |
| Inventory | 59.188.1 · Wildenstein 1755 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
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Powder pink, cobalt blue, purple, pale yellow and pearl gray make up a luminous but structured work. This reproduction matches a light living room, bedroom or entrance, with oak, ecru linen and a matte gold or midnight blue frame.
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