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Rougets W140 par Claude Monet, vers 1870, Harvard Art Museums
  • Rougets W140 par Claude Monet, vers 1870, Harvard Art Museums
  • Rougets W140 par Claude Monet, vers 1870, Harvard Art Museums
Rougets W140 - Claude Monet

Rougets W140 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · Two fish on a cloth circa 1870 · Harvard Art Museums

Red mullet W140hand painted reproduction

Two red mullet are placed on a crumpled white cloth, seen from quite a height and framed as closely as possible. Their pinks, oranges and silvery greens stand out from a fabric painted in large cream, gray and white planes. Monet gives a very simple subject the tension of a modern composition: the fish are neither aligned nor decorated, but suspended between direct observation and imminent preparation.

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Red mullet W140Claude Monet · Around 1870
Around 1870Dating
31.1 × 46 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
1925.16 · Wildenstein 140Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
Controlled in photoYou see the finished painting before it leaves.
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Look at the work

Two colored diagonals animate a white linen

The top fish is oriented to the right, its head raised by a fold of fabric. The bottom one points in the opposite direction and advances towards the left edge. The offset of the bodies and tails forms a flexible X in the center of the canvas, without rigid symmetry.

White linen is an architecture in its own right. Its folds rise behind the fish, hollow out into gray shadows then fall onto an olive green background. The dark border of the canvas and the red-brown signature at the bottom right close this very close framing.

White is not an empty background: its folds carry fish, direct their diagonals and circulate light around their scales.

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.

01

A high and deliberately tight framing

The viewer looks almost vertically. Some of the laundry comes out of the frame, making it appear like a scene captured on a table rather than a ceremonial arrangement.

02

Bodies painted in juxtaposed colors

Salmon pink, orange, gray green and white describe the volumes without detailed drawing of each scale. The eyes and gills provide only a few precise accents.

03

A contrast between living material and fabric

Fish use short, changing, shiny touches. The linen is constructed by larger gray-white gestures that emphasize its weight and folds.

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The unique reference corresponds to object 231940 from Harvard Art Museums. The 2400 × 1632 px file retained its native resolution, without enlargement, then was converted to WebP.

Composition01

Two opposite reading directions

The heads and tails respond diagonally. This opposition keeps the gaze in the center despite the very small space around the fish.

Color02

Reds tempered by olive green

The warm color of red mullet is surrounded by broken whites and a gray green background. This ratio makes the flesh luminous without saturating it.

Matter03

Frank brushstrokes on the laundry

The shadows of the folds are laid in long gray and green bands. They must remain visible to conserve the energy of the small canvas.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

This still life painted around 1870 measures 31.1 × 46 cm. It is kept at the Harvard Art Museums under the 1925.16 inventory and classified Wildenstein 140.

Subject01

Two common fish before preparation

The Harvard notice underlines the everyday nature of the motif and the close point of view. Nothing yet separates pictorial contemplation from the domestic gesture that will follow.

Context02

Still life experiences of the 1870s

Monet then became interested in objects, flowers and food. Harvard brings this research closer to Delacroix, Manet's reinterpretations and the renewed attention to Chardin.

Provenance03

A donation to the Fogg Museum in 1925

After Edmond Maître, Durand-Ruel and Doctor Albert C. Barnes, the painting returned to Durand-Ruel. The Friends of the Fogg Art Museum offered it to the museum in 1925.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.

  • Respect the opposite orientation of the two fish and the gap between their bodies.
  • Store pinks, oranges and silvery greens without transforming the flesh into uniform red.
  • Make the folds of the laundry with large gray-white gestures and not with rigid contours.
  • Preserve the olive background, dark border and signature as limits of the composition.

Work sheet

Title Red mullet W140
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date Around 1870
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 31.1 × 46 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Harvard Art Museums /Fogg Museum, Cambridge, United States
Inventory 1925.16 · Wildenstein 140
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Harvard Art Museums - object 231940, inventory 1925.16

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This small still life, bright and graphic, finds its place in a kitchen, a dining room or a wall composition. A dark, olive or fine gold wood frame highlights its broken reds and whites.

Red mullet W140, painted for your interior

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