A progression of triangles
Each sail has a different size and inclination. Their succession gives lateral movement without aligning the boats.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Water sports around 1872 · Musée d'Orsay
Four sailboats with large white sails cross the Argenteuil basin. Their light shapes stand out in front of the bank and extend into blue-gray water. Monet reduces the race to a few hulls, masts and reflections, but retains all the sensation of air and movement.

Look at the work
The boats are spread across the entire width, but the large sail placed near the center dominates. Smaller sails on the left create progression, while hulls and rowers remain indicated by brief dark accents.
On the right, a few houses, trees and walkers mark the bank. The sky and the Seine use nearby blues, separated by the horizon and by reflections. Those of the sails descend in cream and yellow touches, broken by the horizontal movements of the water.
The subject is a race, but Monet above all paints the fleeting encounter between the wind, the sails and their light on the Seine.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Each sail has a different size and inclination. Their succession gives lateral movement without aligning the boats.
Clear shapes dissolve in water and become irregular bands. This deformation makes the chop perceptible.
Houses, trees and figures locate Argenteuil, but remain secondary to the light of the sails and the extent of the basin.
Reference image
The reference corresponds to canvas RF 2778, W233, from the Musée d'Orsay. It makes readable the position of the four sailboats, their reflections, the shore and the small accents of color which animate the boats.
The width of the canvas follows the opening of the pool and allows the sailboats to be spaced out like successive stages of a race.
The sails mix ivory, yellow and gray; they gain brightness in contrast with the sky and the blue-gray water.
The reflections, the shells and the edge are constructed by short gestures which let the canvas vibrate between the shapes.
Documented benchmarks
The Musée d'Orsay documents this painting under inventory RF 2778 and number 233 of the Wildenstein catalog raisonné.
The Seine forms a vast expanse of water where racing boats have competed since 1850, attracting competitors and walkers from Paris.
Gustave Caillebotte acquired the painting from Monet on February 26, 1876 and kept it until his death in 1894.
The State accepts the Caillebotte legacy intended for the Luxembourg Museum; the work then joins the Louvre then the Musée d'Orsay.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Regattas in Argenteuil W233 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | Around 1872 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 48 × 75.3 cm |
| Orientation | Panoramic |
| Conservation | Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France |
| Inventory | RF 2778 · Wildenstein 233 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
The large ivory sails and blue-gray water give a fresh and very readable light. This regatta is suitable for a living room, office or house near water; an oak, off-white or deep blue frame respects its panoramic format.
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