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Effet de neige à Vétheuil de Claude Monet, 1878-1879 – musée d’Orsay RF 3755, Wildenstein 506
  • Effet de neige à Vétheuil de Claude Monet, 1878-1879 – musée d’Orsay RF 3755, Wildenstein 506
  • Effet de neige à Vétheuil de Claude Monet, 1878-1879 – musée d’Orsay RF 3755, Wildenstein 506
Snow effect in Vétheuil, Orsay W506 - Claude Monet

Snow effect in Vétheuil, Orsay W506 - Claude Monet

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Boutique Claude Monet Decorative Paintings French painting – French artists Impressionist Impressionist Landscapes Impressionist snow and winter Japonism Musée d'Orsay The Snow by Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · 1878 -1879 · Orsay RF 3755 · W506

Snow effect in Vétheuil, Orsay W506hand painted reproduction

From the opposite bank of the Seine, Monet looks at Vétheuil under already irregular snow. The bell tower dominates the houses with white roofs, bare trees cross the sky and a strip of cold water occupies the entire foreground. Greens, blues and browns emerge under the snow: the scene is not still, it shows a landscape changing.

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Snow effect in Vétheuil, Orsay W506Claude Monet · 1878 -1879
1878 - 1879Dating
52.5 × 71 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
RF 3755 · Wildenstein 506Inventory
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Look at the work

Vétheuil appears behind the snowy bank and the moving reflections of the Seine

The bell tower is placed slightly to the left of the center and extends beyond the roofs with its blue-green mass. Vertical trees fragment the village, while two small figures near a fence give a human scale to the river bank.

The foreground alternates water, melted snow and dark vegetation. The horizontal green and blue touches respond to the white marks of the embankment. This opposition enlivens the surface without breaking the cold and silent atmosphere of winter.

The snow here reveals the colors of the landscape: it never completely covers them.

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 specific winter in Vétheuil

The Musée d'Orsay dates the painting from the winter of 1878 -1879. Monet then just settled in the village, and the Seine, the houses and the church became the grounds for daily observation of seasonal variations.

02

A different view of the Church of Vétheuil W505

RF 3755 is a horizontal composition taken from the other bank, with water in the foreground. It should not be confused with the vertical canvas W505, where the church occupies more of the frame.

03

A landscape built in small breaks

Walls, trees and reflections are not enclosed in continuous contours. Monet juxtaposes brown, green, blue and white markings to let air circulate between the planes.

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The single reference image measures 2,790 × 2,063 px. It shows the exact work RF 3755 and was prepared in WebP without enlargement from a photograph by Adrian Scottow distributed under CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Composition01

The bell tower as an anchor point

The tower gives the scale of the village but remains partially veiled by the branches. It must dominate without becoming a dark block isolated from the rest of the scene.

Color02

Ivory, moss green and cool blue

The white of the snow contains warm grays and bluish reflections. The brown lands and greens of the river keep the landscape alive under this clear range.

Matter03

Horizontal keys in the water

The Seine is painted in small superimposed streaks, denser at the bottom. This material distinguishes the moving water from the snow-covered embankment and brings depth to the foreground.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

This information concerns specifically Snow effect in Vétheuil of the Musée d'Orsay, RF 3755 and Wildenstein 506.

Identification01

Musée d'Orsay RF 3755, W506

The oil on canvas measures 52.5 × 71 cm and bears Monet's signature at the bottom left. The museum notice and the catalog raisonné identify it under the numbers RF 3755 and 506.

Provenance02

Acquired by Gustave Caillebotte

Caillebotte purchased the work directly from Monet in January 1879 for 200 francs. The State accepted it in 1896 as part of its legacy before its assignment to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986.

Exposure03

Fourth Impressionist Exhibition

The painting was presented in Paris in 1879 under number 144. This presence directly links it to the moment when the Impressionists affirmed a new way of painting the contemporary landscape.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The exact version RF 3755 and Wildenstein 506, separate from W505
  • The original horizontal format of 52.5 × 71 cm
  • The bell tower, the two small figures and the trees preserved at their proper scale
  • The colorful snow and the reflections of the Seine without uniform white

Work sheet

Title Snow effect in Vétheuil, Orsay W506
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1878 - 1879
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 52.5 × 71 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Inventory RF 3755 · Wildenstein 506
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Musée d'Orsay

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

Ivory, moss green, gray blue, earth brown and pale turquoise make up a luminous but sober reproduction. The horizontal format is easily placed above a sideboard, a desk or in an interior combining light stone and patinated wood.

Snow effect in Vétheuil, Orsay W506, painted for your interior

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