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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1908 · Cardiff NMW A 2488 · W1747
The island of San Giorgio Maggiore appears in a very clear, almost milky light. The Palladian facade, the dome and the campanile stand out in small differences of blue, pink and green. Two gondolas slide in front of the monastery and give a human scale to this architecture suspended between the lagoon and the sky.
Look at the work
The campanile, slightly to the left of the center, constitutes the main vertical. The facade of the church is placed lower and further to the right, while the monastic buildings stretch the island across the entire width. The lagoon occupies almost half of the canvas and bears the small silhouettes of the gondolas.
The stone is not white: it receives pale yellow, pink, sea green and blue. The shadows remain light and open. In the lagoon, very fine horizontal touches take on the same colors, so that the monument seems to be bathed in atmosphere rather than clearly reflected.
W1747 is a study of light as much as a view of Venice: the architecture remains readable, but each shape is crossed by the color of the air.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
Museum Wales says Monet probably painted this view between four and six in the afternoon, his "fourth motif". He returned to the same framing during several sessions to adjust the whole thing to a precise lighting effect.
Monet and Alice stay at the Britannia Hotel on the Grand Canal. From this position, the Palladian monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore presents itself almost head-on, beyond the open expanse of the lagoon.
The boats are tiny, but their dark, horizontal lines animate the foreground. They introduce a measure and movement that contrast with the large diffuse masses of the church and the sky.
Reference image
The single reference image measures 2,717 × 1,958 px. The exact Museum Wales file remains at its native definition and has been converted into a real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
The tower first catches the eye, then the light facade and its dome shift the gaze to the right. This asymmetry gives the panorama its living balance.
The colors are very little saturated. Their proximity makes the light vibrant, but requires that reproduction maintain small temperature differences between the facades and the sky.
Brush strokes are arranged in small streaks superimposed on the water. In architecture, they are shorter and more vertical, just enough to maintain essential volumes.
Documented benchmarks
These markers precisely identify Cardiff's painting NMW A 2488, Wildenstein catalog 1747.
This oil on canvas from 1908 measures 59.2 × 81.2 cm. The Museum Wales keeps it in the Welsh National Collection.
Gwendoline Davies acquired the work in Paris during the presentation of the views of Venice. The painting then entered the Museum Wales with its legacy from 1952.
The museum emphasizes that this painting is among the first impressionist works to enter the Davies collection, which has become a major core of Welsh collections.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice W1747 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1908 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 59.2 × 81.2 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales |
| Inventory | NMW A 2488 · Wildenstein 1747 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
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Ivory, celadon blue, pale pink, mauve and sea green give this reproduction a soft and refined light. It is suitable for light interiors, natural textiles and cream or warm gray walls, with a light wood or patinated gold frame.
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