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Le Train de marchandises W213 par Claude Monet, Pola Museum of Art
  • Le Train de marchandises W213 par Claude Monet, Pola Museum of Art
  • Le Train de marchandises W213 par Claude Monet, Pola Museum of Art
The W213 freight train - Claude Monet

The W213 freight train - Claude Monet

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Boutique Claude Monet French painting – French artists Impressionist Impressionist cities and modern life Japonism Pola Museum of Art

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Claude Monet · Déville-lès-Rouen · Pola Museum of Art

The W213 Freight Trainhand painted reproduction

A locomotive crosses the industrial landscape of Déville-lès-Rouen, projecting a long white plume. Factories, chimneys and hills intertwine under a heavy sky: Monet captures the modernization of the territory as a phenomenon as mobile as light.

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The W213 Freight TrainClaude Monet · 1872
1872Dating
48.1 × 75 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
006-0322 · Wildenstein 213Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

The railway crosses a changing landscape

The locomotive moves from right to left in an almost horizontal lane. Its dark body remains partially drowned in the environment, but the white steam unfolds diagonally and becomes the real visual engine of the canvas. In the foreground, a woman with an umbrella and a man, tiny facing the industrial site, introduce a human scale.

Behind the train, a succession of buildings and tall chimneys fill the valley. Some release gray smoke which merges with the clouds, while the large plume of the locomotive retains a warmer light. The hill closes the horizon and contrasts its brown mass with the narrow green of the foreground.

Monet does not separate industry from the atmosphere: steam, smoke and clouds belong to the same pictorial movement.

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

Plume as a trajectory

The steam follows a rising diagonal that leads the eye through the valley. Its ivory heart, gray edges and transparencies must maintain volume without forming a uniform white mass.

02

A stratified industrial city

Railway tracks, factories, chimneys and hillsides pile up into tight strips. Dark verticals punctuate this depth and prevent the landscape from being reduced to a simple frieze.

03

Two scales of modernity

The figures in the foreground are small but decisive: their presence measures the size of the train and factories, while bringing a touch of urban life to the scene.

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The reference retains the complete framing of the W213 canvas and makes it possible to distinguish the figures in the foreground, the locomotive, the Déville chimneys and the variations in density in the smoke.

Composition01

A train placed very low

The locomotive crosses the lower strip, leaving the industrial landscape and the sky with an unusual scale.

Color02

Browns crossed by light

Ocher, earth, dark green and blue gray dominate, while ivory vapor concentrates light.

Matter03

Smoke of different materials

The plume of the train is thick and bright; the grayer factory fumes gradually dissolve in the air.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The Pola Museum of Art notice precisely identifies the site, technique and role of the railway in this rare industrial composition by Monet.

Location01

Déville, west of Rouen

The museum places the scene in this Norman town developed around metallurgy and textile manufacturing in the 19th century.

Modern subject02

One of Monet's first trains

Painted before the first impressionist exhibition, the work announces the interest that Monet would subsequently have in the tracks and vapors of Saint-Lazare station.

Collection03

Inventory 006-0322

This oil on canvas from 1872 measures 48.1 × 75 cm and corresponds to number 213 of the Wildenstein catalog raisonné.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Construct the steam in ivory, gray and pink layers to maintain its volume and transparency.
  • Keep the locomotive readable without artificially detaching it from the dark landscape.
  • Differentiate factory fumes from the brighter plume of the train.
  • Preserve the two small figures in the foreground and the rhythm of the chimneys throughout the valley.

Work sheet

Title The W213 Freight Train
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1872
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 48.1 × 75 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
Inventory 006-0322 · Wildenstein 213
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Pola Museum of Art

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

Its dark earths, bluish grays and luminous plume give this work a strong presence in a contemporary office, library or living room. A patinated black, burnished steel or walnut frame underlines its industrial character.

The W213 Freight Train, painted for your interior

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