A small but decisive sun
The red disk occupies very little surface area, yet its pure color immediately catches the eye. Its enlarged reflection then leads to the ice cubes in the foreground.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Seine in Vétheuil · 1880 · W574
A red sun descends above the Seine stuck in the ice. Its orange and yellow reflection crosses the cold water to the foreground, between blue and white plaques; the bank of Lavacourt forms a dark line and bare trees close the view to the right. Painted and signed in 1880, this oil on canvas measuring 60.6 × 81.1 cm is kept at the Pola Museum of Art under number 016-0035 and corresponds to Wildenstein 574.

Look at the work
The horizon is near the middle. The sun, slightly to the left of the center, responds to the group of bare trees on the right; between these two accents, Lavacourt's silhouettes remain low and let the sky diffuse all its light.
The sky changes from yellow to pink then to gray-green. In the water, these colors become more saturated around the reflection, while the ice patches are bordered by dark blue, turquoise and purple.
Evening light does not uniformly warm the landscape: it opens an incandescent path in the middle of the ice and makes the cold areas surrounding it even more sensitive.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The red disk occupies very little surface area, yet its pure color immediately catches the eye. Its enlarged reflection then leads to the ice cubes in the foreground.
A dark advance enters the image on the left and a clump of trees stands on the right. Their asymmetry maintains the opening of the river towards Lavacourt.
The plates are not only white: their faces reflect the yellow of the sunset and their blue borders indicate the water gaps and their thickness.
Reference image
The only official image from the Pola Museum of Art is preserved in its native definition of 1,500 × 1,115 px then encoded in real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
It must remain small, sharp and more saturated than the sky, without becoming a large diffuse orange spot.
This irregular reflection connects the sun to the foreground and organizes all the depth; it does not follow a perfectly straight column.
Their blue silhouettes form the main counterweight to the sun and give scale to the landscape.
Documented benchmarks
The Pola Museum of Art documents Sunset on the Seine in Winter, oil on canvas from 1880, 60.6 × 81.1 cm, inventory 016-0035 and Wildenstein catalog 574.
Monet observes the village located on the other bank and the islands of the river from the surroundings of his house in Vétheuil.
The breaking of the ice momentarily transforms the Seine into a field of moving plates; Monet follows this phenomenon in several lights, until sunset.
Its format of 60.6 × 81.1 cm, the small red sun and the bare trees on the right distinguish it from the large sunset W576 preserved at the Petit Palais.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Sunset over the Seine, winter W574 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1880 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60.6 × 81.1 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan |
| Inventory | 016-0035 · Wildenstein 574 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This horizontal landscape is suitable for a living room, dining room or bedroom. A petrol blue, gray green or warm beige wall and a dark frame reinforce the contrast between ice and light.
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