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Soleil couchant P54 par Claude Monet, 1890–1900, Musée Soumaya
  • Soleil couchant P54 par Claude Monet, 1890–1900, Musée Soumaya
  • Soleil couchant P54 par Claude Monet, 1890–1900, Musée Soumaya
Setting sun P54 - Claude Monet

Setting sun P54 - Claude Monet

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Oil painting on rolled canvas, unframed. Custom size available on request.

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Boutique Claude Monet French painting – French artists Impressionist Japonism Soumaya Museum Sunsets and sunrises

Artwork description

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Claude Monet · An incandescent sky above a dark meadow · Soumaya Museum

Setting sun P54hand painted reproduction

A huge sky is charged with blue, pink, yellow and purple above a narrow strip of green earth. On the right, a mass of brown trees closes the landscape; in the center, the clouds open onto an almost electric yellow light. This pastel, kept at the Soumaya Museum, condenses the sunset into rapid, superimposed lines.

Pastel on paperHand paintedPhoto before shipmentPossible alterations
Setting sun P54 - Claude Monet - full view
Setting sun P54Claude Monet · 1890 -1900
1890 - 1900Dating
20 × 31.2 cmDimensions of the original
Pastel on paperOriginal technique
Wildenstein P54Inventory
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.
Touch-ups includedAdjustments are made before shipping.

Look at the work

The sunset light transforms the clouds into colorful ribbons

The earth occupies only a thin area at the bottom of the leaf. It alternates dark green, blue and brown, without precise topographical detail. This low line frees up almost the entire surface for the movement of the sky and accentuates the apparent height of the clouds.

Winding yellows highlight the edges of the pink and purple clouds. Light blue passages cross the center, while the group of trees on the right forms a very dense counterweight. The colors are not blended everywhere: their juxtaposition maintains the speed of observation.

In this small pastel, the landscape serves as an anchor; the real subject is the movement of light through clouds that change from second to second.

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 lowered horizon to give all the space to the sky

The dark meadow stabilizes the leaf without competing with the clouds. Its weak development transforms the format of 20 × 31.2 cm into a vast atmospheric study.

02

Yellow draws more than it illuminates

Fine hot lines follow the internal contours of the clouds and organize the gaze. They create luminous breakthroughs instead of directly representing the disk of the sun.

03

The pastel technique promotes speed

Dry lines, flat rubs and overlays allow Monet to immediately change a shade. Powdery material is suitable for a phenomenon whose color changes before the scene is even completed.

Reference image

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The visual corresponds to Sunset, pastel on 20 × 31.2 cm paper kept at the Soumaya Museum and listed Wildenstein P54. The unique WebP measures 1,084 × 691 px, definition of the selected public museum file, without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

The mass of trees closes the composition on the right

Its deep brown contains purples, greens and blues. It must remain dense without becoming a uniform black.

Color02

The colors of the sky overlap without getting dirty

Blue, pink, yellow and purple keep distinct areas. A transition that is too smooth would remove the energy from the pastel lines.

Matter03

The meadow retains a cold light

The green in the foreground is crossed by blue and gray bands. This cool contrast makes the warm light of the clouds more intense.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

This pastel on paper measures 20 × 31.2 cm. Preserved at the Soumaya Museum in Mexico, it is listed under number P54 of the Wildenstein catalog raisonné.

Title01

Setting sun, also presented as Paisaje

The Soumaya Museum documentation uses the Spanish title Paisaje, while the catalog raisonné identifies the work in French as Sunset. Number P54 fixes the exact version.

Technique02

An original executed in pastel on paper

The support allows direct lines, friction and color recovery. The proposed reproduction remains an oil painting on canvas, interpreted by hand from this original on paper.

Collection03

A work preserved in Mexico

The Soumaya Museum brings together this study of the sky with its ensembles devoted to European art. Its small size invites you to closely observe the pigment superpositions and the weft of the paper.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Keeping horizon very low.
  • Preserve the yellow lines at the edge of the clouds.
  • Differentiate between purples, pinks and blues of the sky.
  • Keep the trees on the right dense but colorful.

Work sheet

Title Setting sun P54
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1890 - 1900
Original technique Pastel on paper
Dimensions 20 × 31.2 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Soumaya Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Inventory Wildenstein P54
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - Soumaya Museum /Wikimedia Commons - Setting Sun, Wildenstein P54

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This sky study is suitable for a bedroom, office or small wall composition. A midnight blue, dark brown or matte gold frame accompanies the clouds; a cream, deep green or powder pink wall reveals its contrasts.

Setting sun P54, painted for your interior

Reproduction of oil painting on canvas made individually, photo controlled and adjustable before shipping.

Hand painted · WebP reference · Photo validation
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Canvas rolled, without frame
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Setting sun P54 - Claude Monet
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