A strong spatial diagonal
The Museum Barberini highlights the oblique succession of gerbiers. Their rapid decrease leads to the foreground looking towards the sun.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1890 · W1273
A row of gerbiers sinks diagonally towards a low sun, behind a monumental mass which fills the entire left edge. This oil on canvas of 73 × 92.5 cm, painted in 1890 and signed Claude Monet 91, belongs to the Hasso Plattner Collection of the Museum Barberini under the inventory MB-Mon-26 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1273.

Look at the work
The first gerbier is so close that it is largely cut to the left. Behind it, two decreasing shapes lead towards the luminous center; the trees on the right close the perspective without blocking the sky.
The sun appears as an orange-yellow focus between the masses. Its rays cross the diagonal of the gerbiers, while purples, reds, greens and blues saturate the shadows and the field.
W1273 gives the serial pattern an unusual energy: the depth advances diagonally and the backlight bursts the color on each edge.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The Museum Barberini highlights the oblique succession of gerbiers. Their rapid decrease leads to the foreground looking towards the sun.
Light does not whiten shapes. It produces yellow and red borders, facing mauve and blue shadows of great density.
The museum brings together the truncated framing, diagonal and intense colors of Japanese engraved woods collected by Monet.
Reference image
Only one reference image is used. The exact image of W1273 is converted to a true WebP of 2200 × 1690 px, without artificial enlargement.
The first gerbier overflows the frame. Reducing it would weaken the proximity effect and all the dynamics of the row.
The luminous disk remains partially absorbed by the touches of the sky and the gerbiers; it must not become an isolated white circle.
The gestures follow the slopes of the straw then radiate around the light, making visible the construction of the solar effect.
Documented benchmarks
The Museum Barberini documents Les Meules, oil on canvas from 1890, 73 × 92.5 cm, inventory MB-Mon-26 and Wildenstein 1273.
Durand-Ruel acquired the painting from the artist on July 2, 1891. She then joined the collection of Chicago patron Bertha Palmer.
Monet studies gerbiers at different times and in several climates, making temporal change the central subject of the cycle.
The painting now bears the MB-Mon-26 inventory at the Museum Barberini. Its reference Wildenstein 1273 precisely fixes this version.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The W1273 Grinders |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1890 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73 × 92.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany |
| Inventory | MB-Mon-26 · Wildenstein 1273 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This very colorful canvas is suitable for a living room or library. A stone wall, walnut and eggplant, deep green or ocher textiles take on its contrasts without competing with the sun.
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