À propos de l’œuvre
Matinée sur la Seine, temps de pluie, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1898 · Tokyo P.1965-0004 · W1499
Morning on the Seine, rainy weather W1499hand painted reproduction
Willow branches descend from the left bank and form a vault above a blue-green Seine. In the center right, a pale gap concentrates the reflections of the sky before dispersing in small touches over the water. This 1898 painting belongs to Matinées sur la Seine, painted at a fixed time near Giverny to capture a brief light before its transformation.
Look at the work
The dark bank opens a passage towards a light which spreads over the entire Seine
The left edge is constructed by several superimposed masses: blue-black foliage, hanging branches, grass on the bank and short reflections. Their limits remain deliberately confused. At the top, the plant vault extends towards the center with lighter marks, as if the branches were gradually disappearing into the mist.
The clear gap does not form a disk of sunlight. It consists of pale green, creamy yellow, gray blue and white, then reflects in an irregular column. The touches of the water become shorter and more nervous towards the bottom. Monet thus translates the waves which wash the tufts of grass without drawing their outline.
Light does not illuminate an already constructed landscape: it is the force that separates, brings together and then dissolves branches, shore and water.
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 mass of edge which remains readable without contour
On the left, dark blue, green and purple must remain distinct. The branches and their reflection mingle, but their vertical fall retains the sensation of a nearby bank.
A clear, slightly off-center opening
The light focus is to the right of the center and must not turn white. Its diffuse yellows, greens and blues give the mist its depth.
Wavelets rendered by the direction of the key
At the bottom, the horizontal and oblique marks intersect in blue, turquoise and gray. Their rhythm reflects the movement of water more than the shape of isolated objects.
Details and visual documents
Observe the material and the exact version
The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.
The Google Art Project scan measures 4,140 × 3,307 px. The two native details measure 1,800 × 2,100 px and 2,000 × 1,800 px. No files have been artificially enlarged; all three media are true decodable WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
Tokyo P.1965-0004, Wildenstein 1499
The National Museum of Western Art dates the work to 1898, indicates a format of 73 × 91.5 cm and records it under the number P.1965-0004. It is signed and dated lower left "Claude Monet 98" and corresponds to Wildenstein 1499.
Morning on the Seine and Morning on the Seine, rainy weather
The museum today presents the work under the title Morning on the Seine. His bibliography specifies that the Wildenstein catalog raisonné of 1979 published it under the French title Matinée sur la Seine, temps de rain.
A time and location set near Giverny
Monet undertook the Mornings on the Seine in 1896 -1897, working very early from a specific location. The museum highlights the search for a decorative effect, the reflected willows and the tension of the touch in the face of a nature in constant change.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version from the National Museum of Western Art, P.1965-0004 and W1499
- The original horizontal format of 73 × 91.5 cm
- The light gap preserved colored, without artificial white
- The movement of the waves maintained by the varied direction of the keys
Work sheet
| Title | Morning on the Seine, rainy weather W1499 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1898 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73 × 91.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| Inventory | P.1965-0004 · Wildenstein 1499 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Petrol blue, mist green, pearl gray, creamy yellow and purple make up a calm and deep light. This horizontal reproduction is suitable for a simple bedroom, office or living room, with light wood, linen and soft, slightly side lighting.
