À propos de l’œuvre
La Seine à Vétheuil, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · Vétheuil · 1881 · W673
The Seine at Vétheuil W673hand painted reproduction
The Seine describes a wide curve at the foot of a tree-covered hillside. A row of slender poplars follows the bank, while their silhouettes and slope are reflected in almost still water. Signed and dated Claude Monet 81, this oil on canvas measuring 73.7 × 100.5 cm belongs to a private collection, was loaned to the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and corresponds to Wildenstein 673.
Look at the work
The river becomes a mirror between the poplars and the hillside
The bank draws an arc from the lower left edge towards the center right. Thin poplars are divided into unequal groups, dominated by a darker mass. The colored hillside closes the composition without erasing the depth.
Deep green, purple, yellow and pink structure the trees and the slope. The sky takes on cream and pearl gray tones. In the water, these colors are stretched vertically then interrupted by small horizontal touches.
The reflection does not faithfully repeat the shore: it breaks it down into colored columns and transforms the real landscape into pictorial rhythm.
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.
A curve that opens space
The nearby bank avoids a straight separation between land and water. Its arc leads towards the poplars then towards the slope of the distance.
Natural verticals
The fine trunks interrupt the large horizontal areas of the sky and the river. Their diversity of height gives the landscape a supple rhythm.
A freer reflection than his model
The shapes of the shoreline extend into the water, but the colors mix and fragment. This autonomy of reflection animates the entire lower half.
Reference image
Read this specific version
A single exact image of W673 is used throughout the listing and as the sole Shopify media. The real WebP measures 2,119 × 1,545 px and retains its native definition.
Preserve the great curve of the Seine
It must remain readable from the foreground to the group of trees in the center.
Preserve fine and irregular poplars
Their silhouettes should not become a uniform row or lose their height differences.
Keep the green-purple highlights
Colored columns should blend into the water without mechanically reproducing each tree.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The documentation from La Seine à Vétheuil identifies an oil on canvas from 1881, 73.7 × 100.5 cm, signed and dated, belonging to a private collection and listed as Wildenstein 673.
A landscape painted at the end of Monet's stay
Between 1878 and 1881, Monet explored the shores, islands, fields and hillsides around the village. W673 belongs to this continuous observation of the Seine.
A format over a meter wide
The dimensions of 73.7 × 100.5 cm allow the trees and reflections to unfold with an unusual magnitude for this pattern.
A work released on the market in 2006
The painting was sold at Christie's in London before being presented on loan at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The Wildenstein 673 version
- The curve of the Seine
- Poplar groups
- Purple green reflections in the water
Work sheet
| Title | The Seine at Vétheuil W673 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1881 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73.7 × 100.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Private collection, ready at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, United States |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 673 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
This large horizontal landscape is suitable above a sofa, sideboard or desk. A gray green, pale blue or linen wall and a natural wood frame prolong its calm.
