À propos de l’œuvre
Vétheuil, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1901 · Chicago · Wildenstein 1643
Vétheuilhand painted reproduction
From the opposite bank of the Seine, Monet brings together Vétheuil in three bands of light: a lilac sky, a soft green hill laden with pink houses, then vast water where the village unravels into cream, blue and mauve reflections.
Look at the work
A light village suspended between the green hill and its reflection
Notre-Dame Church forms the axis of the painting, slightly to the left of the center. Its cream tower and purple roof emerge from a network of pink, yellow and blue houses. Behind them, the slope is not a uniform background: long green, turquoise and salmon diagonals extend the movement of the roofs to the edges.
The bank line remains thin and discontinuous. In the lower half, Monet renounces the mirror reflection: the colors of the village are stretched, broken then absorbed by a calmer lilac tablecloth. Visible canvas and preparation areas maintain air between the keys.
The precision of the pattern does not come from a closed drawing, but from the right place of each temperature: the green of the hill, the pink of the roofs and the purple of the water.
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.
The church as a luminous vertical
The tower must remain light without being surrounded. Its pale yellows, pinks and purples isolate it from the hill while letting it vibrate in the same atmosphere.
A hill built diagonally
The green and turquoise bands are not just a flat area. Their direction leads the eye towards the village and precisely distinguishes this version W1643 from the warmer view W1645.
Water wider than the landscape
The river occupies almost half of the canvas. The colored reflections must fragment before the foreground, where very open mauves and blue grays dominate.
Details and visual documents
Observe the material and the exact version
The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.
The official view measures 3000 × 2887 px. The details of 2300 × 1050 px and 2300 × 1100 px are direct cropping. No files have been enlarged; all three images are real WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
Inventory 1933.447, Wildenstein catalog 1643
This 90.2 × 93.4 cm oil on canvas is signed and dated "Claude Monet 1901" lower left, in light red orange. It is kept at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Clear preparation integrated into the light
The technical examination describes a pre-prepared linen of non-standard size and an off-white background layer. In the sky and water of the foreground, a light underlay marked by the brush remains active between the keys.
The Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Fund
The painting entered the museum in 1933 in the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. Its number 1933.447 allows it to be unambiguously distinguished from the other Vétheuil from 1901 kept in Chicago.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version 1933.447, Wildenstein 1643
- The original format of 90.2 × 93.4 cm
- The green hill preserved without excessive saturation
- Clear preparation and key interruptions respected
Work sheet
| Title | Vétheuil |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1901 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 90.2 × 93.4 cm |
| Orientation | Almost square |
| Conservation | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States |
| Inventory | 1933.447 · Wildenstein 1643 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
The soft greens, mineral pinks and lilacs of this reproduction create a fresh and balanced light. The almost square format is suitable for ivory, greige, sage green or gray blue walls.
