A horizon placed very high
The meadow occupies the majority of the canvas and imposes its rhythm of touches before any topographical reference. This proportion gives the viewer the feeling of being almost in the grass.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1888 · W1202
A vast wet meadow, strewn with touches of green, pink and blue, leads to a few trees which barely emerge in the mist of Giverny. Painted in 1888, this oil on vertical canvas measuring 92.5 × 81.5 cm is kept at the Hermitage Museum under the number Оonds-7721 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1202.

Look at the work
The field rises from the lower edge to a very high line of trees. Two rounded crowns and several vertical poplars serve as landmarks, but their contours remain absorbed by the atmosphere.
Pale green, turquoise, yellow, pink and mauve are placed in small superimposed touches. The creamy sky and the bluish mist at the bottom reduce the contrasts; the landscape appears bathed in humid light rather than illuminated by a visible source.
The vertical format does not elevate a monument: it gives scale to ordinary terrain and makes the distance between grass and trees the real subject.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The meadow occupies the majority of the canvas and imposes its rhythm of touches before any topographical reference. This proportion gives the viewer the feeling of being almost in the grass.
Thin poplars and round crowns each have a silhouette, but the mist softens their limits. They organize depth without closing the field.
During the summer, Monet returned to these terrains several times under different conditions. W1202 favors a pale atmosphere and an almost square, vertically oriented format.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W1202 is used. The real WebP measures 2,328 × 2,640 px and retains the native definition of the source, without artificial enlargement.
The work is based on the gentle transitions between field, trees and sky. Artificially reinforcing the shadows would make the mist disappear.
They prevent the greens from becoming uniform and circulate light from the sky into the foreground.
Their silhouettes must remain legible but flexible. Trunks or crowns that are too sharp would cancel out the atmospheric depth.
Documented benchmarks
The Hermitage Museum preserves Prés à Giverny, oil on canvas from 1888, 92.5 × 81.5 cm, inventory ʻonds-7721 and Wildenstein 1202.
The work comes from the former Sergei Shchukin collection, a major ensemble which introduced impressionism and modern French art to Russia.
Established in the village since 1883, Monet first explored the fields, the Epte valley and the poplars before concentrating his work on the water garden.
Its vertical format, its high horizon, its two round trees and its very fine poplars allow it to be distinguished from other meadows of 1888.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Meadows in Giverny W1202 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1888 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 92.5 × 81.5 cm |
| Orientation | Vertical |
| Conservation | Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Inventory | ʻoult-7721 · Wildenstein 1202 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This soft meadow is suitable for a bedroom, library or living room. A pale green, gray pink or cream wall and a light frame extend its silent atmosphere.
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