A perspective constructed by the path
Its curve starts from the viewer and heads towards the group of houses. The horizontal bands of the fields slow down this movement and maintain the balance between depth and surface.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · The rural hillsides between Rouen and Déville · Private collection
A clear path crosses green and yellow fields before joining a few houses at the foot of Mont Riboudet. The hillsides follow one another under a blue sky washed with clouds, while young trees punctuate the countryside. Monet painted this view in early spring 1872, during a stay with his brother Léon in the vicinity of Rouen.

Look at the work
The beige track starts from the lower right corner, narrows as it advances, then disappears near the houses. It separates the strips of meadow while leading towards the blue-green slope of Mt. The small white and red constructions mark the middle of the composition.
Yellow spots light up the fields and respond to the cream clouds. The trees on the left, still not very leafy, reveal the relief behind them. Monet juxtaposes greens, blues and yellows without rigid outline, giving the landscape the changing freshness of the start of the season.
Mount Riboudet is not treated as a spectacular peak: it becomes the gentle depth of an everyday landscape, observed before the advance of the city.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Its curve starts from the viewer and heads towards the group of houses. The horizontal bands of the fields slow down this movement and maintain the balance between depth and surface.
The Sotheby's notice highlights the nearby beaches of green, blue and yellow. Painted directly on the canvas outdoors, they describe the luminous sensation rather than a continuous academic pattern.
The site was located between Rouen and Déville, near rapidly developing areas. This view nevertheless remains rural, without fireplace or railway, unlike several paintings created by Monet during the same stay.
Reference image
The visual corresponds to Mont Riboudet in Rouen in spring, oil on canvas from 1872, 56 × 74 cm, signed lower right and listed Wildenstein 216. The unique WebP measures 2,880 × 2,163 px, definition of the exact public file, without artificial enlargement.
Beiges, pinks, blues and greens shape its surface and edges. These variations integrate it into the fields rather than placing it over the landscape.
Warm green in the foreground, blue green in the middle then cooler blue on the horizon create distance. The contours remain flexible under the light.
A few light rectangles, red roofs and dark accents are enough. Their role is to measure the scale of the hillside, not to become the main subject.
Documented benchmarks
Painted in early spring 1872, this oil on canvas measures 56 × 74 cm. It is kept in private collections and bears number 216 of the Wildenstein catalog raisonné.
At the beginning of 1872, he went to the surroundings of Rouen and painted around a dozen landscapes. Mont Riboudet was then located between the city and Déville, where his brother lived.
The merchant Paul Durand-Ruel bought the painting from Monet in February 1873. Around 1876, the painter and collector Gustave Caillebotte in turn acquired it for his personal collection.
Sotheby's links this work to the group of 1872 where Monet directly applied the pigment to the canvas in the open air. Light and shadow are established by color ratios rather than by prior drawing.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Mont Riboudet in Rouen in spring W216 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1872 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 56 × 74 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Private collection, Non-public location |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 216 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This spring landscape is suitable for a living room, dining room or office. A light oak, patinated gold or deep green frame accompanies the fields; a cream, pale blue or gray yellow wall reveals the sky.
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