A composition in three bands
The clear field, the flowery area then the line of trees create a simple progression. Their edges remain irregular, which avoids the effect of geometric strata.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1890 · W1255
A band of red poppies crosses a field in Giverny, between the yellow grasses in the foreground and the bluish trees on the horizon. Dated 1890, this 60.5 × 92 cm oil on canvas is kept at the Hermitage Museum under the number Оoult-9004 and corresponds to Wildenstein 1255.

Look at the work
The meadow develops in long, slightly oblique bands. The poppies concentrate in the middle of the canvas, where their red forms an irregular trajectory. At the bottom, a row of trees gently closes the plain without blocking the light from the sky.
The foreground mixes straw yellow, green and pale pink; the flowery area brings together vermilion red and dark touches; the distance becomes purple blue. Monet thus constructs the distance by color temperature as much as by scale.
In W1255, the poppies are not scattered randomly: their red band connects the planes and leads the eye to the cold trees on the horizon.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The clear field, the flowery area then the line of trees create a simple progression. Their edges remain irregular, which avoids the effect of geometric strata.
The vermilion accents respond from edge to edge and give direction to the gaze. Their concentration in the middle makes the calmer areas of the foreground breathe.
The trees are treated with blues and purples which visually repel them. Their low profile leaves the sky with sufficient presence to illuminate the meadow.
Reference image
The sheet uses a single exact image of W1255. The real WebP measures 3,000 × 1,924 px, reduced from a source of 4,943 × 3,171 px and never artificially enlarged.
It should become neither a continuous line nor a series of identical isolated flowers. Variable densities are essential to the rhythm of the landscape.
Grasses heated by light contrast with cold trees. A foreground that is too green would reduce the colored depth of the W1255 version.
Flowers are touches and small masses, not drawn corollas. This simplification retains the feeling of distance and movement.
Documented benchmarks
The Hermitage Museum preserves this field of poppies in Giverny, oil on canvas from 1890, 60.5 × 92 cm, inventory ʻonds-9004 and Wildenstein 1255.
Based in Giverny since 1883, Monet explores the fields and paths near his house. Here, the motif remains an open agricultural landscape, distinct from the later landscaped water garden.
The work belonged to the great Moscow collector Mikhail Morozov. She finally joined the Hermitage collections in 1948.
These two references establish the identity of the canvas despite the translation variations of the title and certain old dating encountered in the publications.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Poppy field in Giverny W1255 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1890 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60.5 × 92 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Inventory | ʻoult-9004 · Wildenstein 1255 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
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The wide format and bold colors are suitable for a living room, dining room or bedroom. A cream, sand or gray green wall and red textiles in very small touches accompany the canvas.
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