A village line placed in the middle of the canvas
This inhabited strip separates two comparable expanses, the sky and the water. It gives a stable structure to a landscape made temporary by flooding.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Vétheuil · 1881 · W639
Flood water covers the meadow and transforms Vétheuil into a strip of houses, trees and roofs placed between two light surfaces. The church and its bell tower appear in the center, behind bare trunks whose reflections descend into the flood. Painted in 1881, this oil on canvas measuring 61.7 × 74 cm is kept at the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art and corresponds to Wildenstein 639.

Look at the work
The water occupies the entire foreground and leaves only a few strips of land or vegetation remaining. The village forms a horizontal line halfway up; the central bell tower, bare trees and a large dark mass on the right provide vertical landmarks.
Blue gray, pale green, beige and purple respond to each other between sky and flood. The houses receive touches of pink, cream and ocher. In water, these colors are not copied identically: they stretch and fragment according to the movement of the surface.
The flood abolishes the meadow without erasing the place: Vétheuil remains recognizable by its bell tower, its roofs and the flexible line of its reflections.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
This inhabited strip separates two comparable expanses, the sky and the water. It gives a stable structure to a landscape made temporary by flooding.
The trunks rise in front of the houses then extend downwards in the form of more blurred touches. This repetition creates depth without insistent architectural perspective.
The bluish grays dominate, but the ochres, pinks and reds of the village prevent the whole thing from becoming monochrome.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W639 is used in the listing and as the sole Shopify media. The real WebP measures 1020 × 827 px and retains the native definition available without artificial enlargement.
It constitutes the essential topographical landmark and must remain readable without too clear an outline.
The upper trunks are firmer; their extensions in the water should remain broken and slightly offset.
Blues, greens and grays must circulate in the foreground in order to render the thickness and movement of the water.
Documented benchmarks
The Kasama Nichido Museum of Art documents Vétheuil, a meadow flooded like an oil on canvas by Claude Monet dated 1881 and measuring 61.7 × 74 cm; the Wildenstein catalog records it under number 639.
Monet observes the rapid transformations of the shore, snow and ice around the village. The flood gives it a larger reflective surface than the ordinary course of the river.
The bell tower, the grouped houses and the slope of Vétheuil give a precise location to this study of atmosphere, despite the leveling of the foreground by water.
The official gallery of the museum publishes the bilingual title Vétheuil, Flooded Meadow, the date 1881, the technique and dimensions of the canvas.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Vétheuil, flooded meadow W639 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1881 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61.7 × 74 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 639 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This horizontal stage is suitable for a bedroom, quiet living room or office. A gray blue, sage green or linen wall and a natural wood frame extend its damp light.
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