Organized flowering without symmetry
The red and pink masses are distributed at different heights. Their apparent imbalance gives the garden natural growth while guiding the view across the entire width.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1887 · W1141
Red, pink and white peonies bloom in dense vegetation, under the horizontal lines of a garden structure. Painted in 1887, this oil on canvas measuring 72.2 × 99.5 cm is kept at the Geneva Museum of Art and History under number 1985-0029 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1141.

Look at the work
The flowers extend in irregular groups in the lower half of the canvas. Their red and pink corollas stand out against deep vegetation, made of bluish greens, yellows and almost blacks. No isolated bouquet dominates: the gaze circulates from one flowering to another.
The vertical uprights and horizontal crosspieces of the garden structure introduce a discreet geometry behind the plants. Monet contrasts this stable frame with the free movement of stems, leaves and flowers, painted in quick touches and superimposed.
The subject is not a still life posed in front of a neutral background: the peonies remain in their living environment, mixed with the shade, the leaves and the construction of the garden.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The red and pink masses are distributed at different heights. Their apparent imbalance gives the garden natural growth while guiding the view across the entire width.
The lines of the horizontal support and the uprights never become an autonomous architectural decor. They give a measure to the abundance of plants and structure depth.
Corollas are not drawn petal by petal. They emerge thanks to warm reds, light pinks and whites placed against dark greens.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W1141 is used throughout the file. The real WebP measures 3,000 × 2,188 px, produced from the official file of the Geneva Museum of Art and History without artificial enlargement.
Flowers do not form a regular border. Their discontinuous placement is essential to the sensation of a garden observed on the spot.
Dark areas should not turn black. Shades of green and blue maintain depth and connect leaves to the garden structure.
These discreet lines locate the flowers in a cultivated space and distinguish this composition from a simple floral study without context.
Documented benchmarks
The Geneva Museum of Art and History preserves Peonies, oil on canvas from 1887, 72.2 × 99.5 cm, inventory 1985-0029 and Wildenstein 1141.
The Geneva Museum of Art and History today identifies the work under the title Pivoines and the date 1887, in accordance with the Wildenstein 1141 catalog.
The painting is kept at the Geneva Museum of Art and History under number 1985-0029. The frame measures 89 × 114.8 × 4 cm.
Monet is already interested in the living organization of flowers, foliage and garden structures. This research announces the growing importance of Giverny in his work.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Peonies W1141 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1887 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72.2 × 99.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Geneva Museum of Art and History, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Inventory | 1985-0029 · Wildenstein 1141 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This dense floral arrangement is suitable for a living room, bedroom or dining room. A deep green, powder pink or cream wall and a discreet frame underline the richness of its reds and foliage.
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