À propos de l’œuvre
Printemps à Giverny, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1886 · W1062
Spring in Giverny W1062hand painted reproduction
A tree covered with young leaves and flowers unfolds in front of a long house with red tiles, almost absorbed by the vegetation of the garden. The bright blue sky, white clouds and profusion of greens give the motif the freshness of a spring day. Signed and dated Claude Monet 86, this oil on canvas measuring 54 × 65 cm is kept at the Kreeger Museum under number 1970.3 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1062.
Look at the work
Giverny's house seen behind a flowering screen
The red roof crosses the composition halfway up, but the branches constantly interrupt it. A slightly off-center dark trunk leads towards the crown, while the foreground garden is made up of stems, flowers and grasses painted in superimposed touches.
Cobalt blue, white and purple light up the sky. The leaves mix yellow, soft green and deep green; the roof brings roses and warm earths. No area is smooth: even the light facade vibrates with small colorful variations.
The house is not the isolated subject of the painting: it becomes a stable plane crossed by the energy of the garden, the sky and the flowering tree.
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 tree that organizes the entire surface
The vertical trunk and oblique branches connect the garden, the roof and the sky. Their design avoids too rigid a separation between the three strips of the landscape.
An almost hidden architecture
Monet leaves enough windows, walls and tiles to recognize the house, but vegetation passes in front and transforms the building into a fragment of the garden.
A material visible in real photography
The view of the framed canvas reveals the clear impasto of the sky, the thick touches of the foliage and the relief of the painting around the flowers.
Reference image
Read this specific version
Only one real photograph of W1062 is used in the listing and as the sole Shopify media. The WebP measures 2,959 × 2,468 px and shows the framed canvas at the Kreeger Museum without artificial enlargement.
Keep the large tree slightly off-center
Its branches must cross the sky and the roof without becoming a network of hard lines.
Preserve the variety of greens in the foreground
Yellows, blues and reds must remain visible between the leaves in order to maintain the richness of the garden.
Keep the red roof behind the branches
This warm strip gives the depth and scale of the house while letting the vegetation dominate.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The Kreeger Museum documents Spring in Giverny, oil on canvas from 1886, 54 × 65 cm, accession 1970.3, signed and dated, and listed Wildenstein 1062.
A scene painted in front of the motif
The museum highlights Monet's outdoor practice: the quick touch and juxtaposed colors reflect a precise moment of light rather than a detailed botanical description.
Claude Monet 86 lower right
The visible inscription fixes the work in the early years of Giverny, before the painter fully developed the water garden which would dominate his late production.
A painting photographed in its frame at the Kreeger Museum
The photograph taken in 2019 shows the work, its canvas border and its sculpted frame. Credit: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The Wildenstein 1062 version
- The big tree in bloom
- The red roof behind the branches
- The impasto visible in the museum photograph
Work sheet
| Title | Spring in Giverny W1062 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1886 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 54 × 65 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Kreeger Museum, Washington DC., United States |
| Inventory | 1970.3 · Wildenstein 1062 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This spring scene is suitable for a living room, veranda or bedroom. A light blue, sage green or warm white wall and a gold or aged wood frame extend its light.
