A deliberately unstable composition
The wave lines, steep cliff edge and clouds follow different directions. Their tension restores the wind and the thrust of the tide.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Pourville · 1882 · W740
Rough seas invade Pourville Bay while a former customs building clings to the edge of the cliff. Signed and dated Claude Monet 82, this oil on canvas measuring 66 × 81.3 cm is kept at the Brooklyn Museum under number 41.1260 and corresponds to Wildenstein 740.

Look at the work
The sea occupies almost the entire lower half and its oblique waves push towards the cliff. The dark promontory advances from the right; above, the small white construction appears fragile facing the immensity of the sky.
Blue green, turquoise, white and purple build the water into nervous touches. The cliff combines brown, green and mauve, while the bluish gray clouds open in places to a lighter light.
The high viewpoint brings the wave closer to the viewer and cuts the cliff on the right: the coast seems less described than physically experienced.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The wave lines, steep cliff edge and clouds follow different directions. Their tension restores the wind and the thrust of the tide.
The old customs house, now disappeared with the retreat of the cliff, gives a precarious human presence at the top of the promontory.
The rib is abruptly interrupted by the right edge and the viewer looks from a high point. This cut moves the canvas away from a conventional panoramic view.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W740 is used. The real WebP measures 1,536 × 1,240 px and comes from the Brooklyn Museum's reference visual, without artificial enlargement.
White ridges do not form uniform bands. Their interruptions and changes in angle make the sea mobile.
It must remain readable without being enlarged or detailed. Its modesty reinforces the height of the cliff and the strength of the landscape.
The sea should not become a homogeneous blue. Turquoise, purple, gray and white simultaneously reflect depth, foam and reflections.
Documented benchmarks
The Brooklyn Museum documents Rising Tide in Pourville, oil on canvas from 1882, 66 × 81.3 cm, signed and dated lower right, inventory 41.1260 and Wildenstein 740.
The Brooklyn Museum specifies that this building has since disappeared with the erosion of the promontory, which today gives the painting additional documentary value.
In Pourville, Monet had his equipment transported and moved from one pattern to another depending on the tide, light and wind, in order to follow rapidly changing effects.
The work enters the Brooklyn Museum with the Havemeyer collection and has inventory number 41.1260.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Rising tide at Pourville W740 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1882 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 66 × 81.3 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States |
| Inventory | 41.1260 · Wildenstein 740 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This energetic navy is suitable for a living room, office or entrance. A gray blue, sea green or mineral beige wall and a dark frame emphasize the movement of the sea.
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