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Portrait de l’artiste de Claude Monet, 1917 – Musée d’Orsay, inventaire RF 2623, W1843
  • Portrait de l’artiste de Claude Monet, 1917 – Musée d’Orsay, inventaire RF 2623, W1843
  • Portrait de l’artiste de Claude Monet, 1917 – Musée d’Orsay, inventaire RF 2623, W1843
Portrait of the artist, Musée d'Orsay W1843 - Claude Monet

Portrait of the artist, Musée d'Orsay W1843 - Claude Monet

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Artist portraits and cultural figures Boutique Classic Paintings for Decoration Claude Monet Decorative Paintings Famous Portraits Famous Self-Portraits French painting – French artists Impressionist Japonism

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Claude Monet · 1917 · Musée d'Orsay RF 2623 · W1843

Portrait of the artist, Musée d'Orsay W1843hand painted reproduction

Monet appears at nearly seventy-seven years old in a dark coat, his face slightly turned to his right. The white beard, the open forehead and the blue-gray eyes emerge from an almost undecorated brown-green background. Nothing distracts from the look: the pose is simple, but the fragmented touch gives the face a nervous and very lively presence.

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Portrait of the artist, Musée d'Orsay W1843Claude Monet · 1917
1917Dating
70.5 × 55 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
RF 2623 · Wildenstein 1843Inventory
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Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

A light face, a white beard and a direct gaze emerge from a deliberately bare green-brown background

The head is placed high in the vertical format. The coat forms a large dark mass that broadens the shoulders and descends out of the frame. Its red-brown collar creates a warm transition to the beard. The background, greener on the left and browner on the right, remains close enough to the clothing for the face to concentrate all the light.

The features are not smoothed. Touches of pink, orange, purple and gray shape the cheeks, nose and temples. The beard combines white, blue, yellow and mauve; it is never a uniform white area. The eyes, small but strongly contrasted, give the self-portrait its restrained intensity.

The painter seeks neither ceremonial nor idealization: he constructs his identity through the look, the material and the colors of the face.

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 tight framing without accessories

No brush, no workshop, no landscape tells the story of Monet's profession. The composition rests on the head, shoulders and gaze, with very little space around the figure.

02

Colorful shadows in the skin

Purple, pink brown, orange and gray blue coexist on the forehead and cheeks. Maintaining these gaps prevents the portrait from becoming too smooth or artificially rejuvenated.

03

A beard made of many temperatures

Warm whites rub shoulders with colder blues and mauves. This variation separates the beard from the collar and gives the face a depth that the simple black-white contrast would not be enough to produce.

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The single reference image measures 1,757 × 2,200 px. It corresponds to the self-portrait RF 2623 from the Musée d'Orsay and has been converted into a real WebP without artificial enlargement.

Composition01

A stable figure, a mobile face

The mantle forms a broad, almost geometric base, while the head is constructed by small, changing touches. This opposition gives the portrait its presence.

Color02

A brown-green background rather than a black

The dark field contains olive, earth and gray passages. Preserving these colors maintains the contour of the hat, hair and shoulders without hardening them.

Matter03

A surface painted with frankness

The high resolution allows separate gestures on the forehead, beard and collar to be read. Reproduction must find this visible material without transforming each touch into dry detail.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

This information concerns the Portrait of the Artist at the Musée d'Orsay, inventory RF 2623 and Wildenstein 1843.

Identification01

Musée d'Orsay RF 2623, W1843

Monet painted this self-portrait in 1917. The oil on canvas measures 70.5 × 55 cm and bears the signature "Claude Monet" at the top left.

A work linked to Clemenceau02

The portrait belonged to Georges Clemenceau

A close friend of the painter, Georges Clemenceau owned the canvas before donating it to the State in 1927. The work then joined the national collections now attached to the Musée d'Orsay.

A late self-portrait03

Monet painted himself during the years of the Great Decorations

In 1917, the artist worked in Giverny on the large Water Lilies panels. This aging face therefore belongs to the period of creation which will lead to the cycle installed at the Orangerie.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The exact version from the Musée d'Orsay, RF 2623 and Wildenstein 1843
  • The original vertical format of 70.5 × 55 cm
  • The blue-gray look kept clear in a free touch
  • The colored whites of the beard and the green browns of the background preserved

Work sheet

Title Portrait of the artist, Musée d'Orsay W1843
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1917
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 70.5 × 55 cm
Orientation Vertical
Conservation Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Inventory RF 2623 · Wildenstein 1843
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Musée d'Orsay

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

Olive brown, bluish black, burgundy, earth pink and gray white give this reproduction a sober presence. The portrait is suitable for a bookcase, desk or collector's wall, with walnut, brown leather and moderate side light.

Portrait of the artist, Musée d'Orsay W1843, painted for your interior

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