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Régates à Argenteuil W233 par Claude Monet, vers 1872, musée d’Orsay
  • Régates à Argenteuil W233 par Claude Monet, vers 1872, musée d’Orsay
  • Régates à Argenteuil W233 par Claude Monet, vers 1872, musée d’Orsay
Regattas in Argenteuil W233 - Claude Monet

Regattas in Argenteuil W233 - Claude Monet

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Boutique Claude Monet French painting – French artists Gustave Caillebotte Impressionist Impressionist cities and modern life Impressionist Landscapes Impressionist leisure and shows Impressionist water and coastlines Japonism

Artwork description

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Claude Monet · Racing sailboats on the Argenteuil basin · Musée d'Orsay

Regattas in Argenteuil W233hand painted reproduction

White sails of different sizes slide on the Seine in front of the houses and trees of Argenteuil. The blue-gray sky, dark hulls and fragmented reflections are laid with a quick touch that lets the canvas breathe. Monet does not recount a precise race: he captures the circulation of boats, air and light over the largest nautical basin in the Paris region.

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Regattas in Argenteuil W233Claude Monet · around 1872
around 1872Dating
48 × 75.3 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
RF 2778 · LUX 365 · Wildenstein 233Inventory
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

The clear sails punctuate the river in front of a modern bank

The tallest sail stands near the center and forms a slightly inclined cream triangle. Two smaller sailboats stand on the left, while a hull and a few masts extend the flotilla to the right. The boats overlap just enough to create a fluid depth.

On the bank, houses with red roofs alternate with groups of trees and a large dark poplar tree. Their reflections fade into the water in orange, green, blue, gray and white lines. The sky occupies a wide, clear band which keeps the whole thing in diffused light.

Veils and houses remain readable from afar, but up close they dissolve in the same split touch as air 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.

01

A triangular rhythm rather than a narration

The sails are spread out in different sizes and inclinations. They direct the gaze from one boat to another and are enough to evoke the regatta without imposing a winner or a spectacular moment.

02

A bank built by alternating masses

Warm facades and green trees form an irregular succession. This stable band provides a measure of the reflections which fragment and move throughout the lower half.

03

The split touch before 1874

Executed around 1872, the canvas already has the characteristics that the Musée d'Orsay associates with impressionism: natural light painting, separate colors and attention to the changing appearance of air and water.

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The visual corresponds to Régates à Argenteuil, inventory RF 2778 and Wildenstein number 233, and not to the large version entitled Les Barques. Digitization is offered as a real WebP of 3,000 × 1,933 px.

Composition01

The main sail is never uniformly white

It receives creams, bluish grays and small warm shadows. These variations give it volume while retaining the shine that organizes the composition.

Color02

Houses remain small and flexible

A few orange, beige and brown planes are enough to distinguish them. Too many architectural details would move them forward and reduce the felt width of the pool.

Matter03

The reflections break under each boat

Colored lines are generally horizontal, but their length and spacing change. Masts and sails must therefore never produce perfectly continuous vertical duplication.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Dated around 1872, this oil on canvas measures 48 × 75.3 cm. It is kept at the Musée d'Orsay under inventories RF 2778 and LUX 365, and listed as Wildenstein 233.

Leisure01

Argenteuil, large regatta pool

Racing boats competed in Argenteuil from 1850. The width of the Seine and the rail link with Paris make the town a privileged place for competitors and Sunday walkers alike.

Period02

The Seine at the heart of the Argenteuil years

Monet lived in the commune from December 1871 to 1878. The Musée d'Orsay indicates that approximately half of the 170 paintings he created during this period represent the banks and activities of the river.

Provenance03

Purchased by Caillebotte then bequeathed to the State

Gustave Caillebotte acquired the painting from Monet on February 26, 1876 for 200 francs. The State accepted it in 1896 with the Caillebotte legacy intended for the Luxembourg Museum, before its assignment to the Musée d'Orsay.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Respect the staggering and inclination of each sail.
  • Maintain the lower bank and its poorly detailed houses.
  • Color the whites of the sails with warm and cold tones.
  • Fragment reflections without creating rigid symmetry.

Work sheet

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 horizontal
Conservation Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Inventory RF 2778 · LUX 365 · Wildenstein 233
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - Musée d'Orsay - Régates in Argenteuil, RF 2778

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This nautical scene is suitable for a living room, office or dining room. A gray blue, blond oak or off-white frame accompanies the sails; a linen, mist blue or sea green wall reveals orange reflections.

Regattas in Argenteuil W233, painted for your interior

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