A depth stepped in flexible strips
The field, the houses and the sky follow one another horizontally, but the trees on the left and the traces in the foreground connect these levels. The composition remains open despite the presence of the village.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Argenteuil under a bright winter sky · Marmottan Monet Museum
Snowy houses group together behind irregular terrain where a few silhouettes advance among the grass and traces of passage. The setting sun does not appear in the form of a disk: it diffuses yellow, pink and white light throughout the sky. Monet contrasts this warm light with the blue and purple shadows that structure the snow.

Look at the work
The bare trees concentrate to the left and form a brown and purple mass. At their foot, low buildings and fences lead towards the group of houses placed in the center. The facades and roofs receive diffused light which softens their contours.
The snowy terrain occupies almost the lower half. Dry grass, furrows and small figures interrupt the whiteness. The very clear sky descends almost to the roofs: its pale yellows and cold roses envelop the village and give the motif its unity.
The setting sun is not painted as an object; it can be recognized by the color it deposits on each surface.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The field, the houses and the sky follow one another horizontally, but the trees on the left and the traces in the foreground connect these levels. The composition remains open despite the presence of the village.
Snow never has a fixed color. It receives yellow near lit areas, blue and lilac in the hollows, as well as brown where earth and grass reappear.
Characters placed in front of houses give the scale of the terrain and prevent the clear expanse from becoming abstract. Their brief treatment corresponds to the rhythm of grass and marks in the snow.
Reference image
The image reproduces the 4019 inventory of the Marmottan Monet museum, Wildenstein 362 version. The official file of 1,500 × 1,274 px has been preserved at its native definition and encoded in WebP, without enlargement.
Cream yellows are mixed with gray pink, blue and white. A uniformly golden shade would lose winter transparency and subtle accord with snow.
Walls, roofs and chimneys are distinguished by changes in value more than by lines. This softness keeps them in the sunset atmosphere.
Grasses, clods and passages form brown or purple interruptions. Their dispersion avoids an empty white band and gradually leads the gaze towards the figures.
Documented benchmarks
This oil on canvas measuring 53 × 64 cm is dated 1875 and signed Claude Monet lower right. It is kept at the Marmottan Monet museum under inventory 4019 and listed as Wildenstein 362.
Monet stayed in Argenteuil from 1871 to 1878 and studied the Seine as well as the streets, gardens and snow effects. This painting belongs to research carried out during the winter of 1874 -1875.
The title emphasizes the observed phenomenon. The houses and characters locate the place, but the chromatic organization between warm sky, cold snow and dark vegetation carries the essence of the painting.
The notice from the Marmottan Monet museum records the entry of the work on May 23, 1940 thanks to the donation from Eugène and Victorine Donop de Monchy. It is numbered 4019.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Snow effect, setting sun W362 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1875 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 53 × 64 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris, France |
| Inventory | 4019 · Wildenstein 362 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Cream, blue gray and pale pink tones bring calm light to a living room, bedroom or entrance. A warm blond, off-white or gray oak frame accompanies the sunset without reducing the delicacy of winter contrasts.
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