A palm tree placed exactly in the center
The Museum Barberini highlights this decisive shift: the central palm tree reduces the monumental importance of Villa Etelinda. Nature becomes the real subject and architecture a landmark within the garden.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1884 · Bordighera · W857a
From the garden of Villa Garnier, Monet places a large palm tree in front of the ancient silhouette of Bordighera and reveals only part of Villa Etelinda on the left edge. This oil on canvas of 61 × 74 cm, signed and dated Claude Monet 84, is kept at the Museum Barberini under the number MB-Mon-15.

Look at the work
The foreground is entirely occupied by bushes, flowers and palm trees which rise towards the buildings. On the left, the light tower of Villa Etelinda is deliberately cut by the frame; in the center, the palm tree serves as an axis; further on, the Città Alta forms an irregular band in the blue air.
The dominant greens are constantly warmed by yellows, pinks, oranges and reds. The facades are not drawn stone by stone: touches of blue, cream and mauve are enough to reveal their volume beyond the garden.
In W857a, Monet shows less the villas than the way exuberant vegetation, blue skies and light facades share the same light.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The Museum Barberini highlights this decisive shift: the central palm tree reduces the monumental importance of Villa Etelinda. Nature becomes the real subject and architecture a landmark within the garden.
The clear tower of the villa, on the left, finds an echo in the bell tower of Santa Maria Maddalena in the heart of the old town. This vertical correspondence connects the nearby foreground to the distant silhouette.
The catalog raisonné distinguishes this MB-Mon-15 composition from other Villas in Bordighera and views of the Strada Romana. The garden of Villa Garnier, the central palm tree and the Città Alta identify the Museum Barberini version.
Reference image
Only one image is used: the official Museum Barberini file, provided and converted into a real WebP of 3,000 × 2,460 px at its available resolution, without artificial enlargement.
Bushes, palm trees, villas and old towns fit together without a perspective path. Differences in contrast and size must remain legible so that plant abundance does not become a flat surface.
Greens contain blue and yellow, but they especially gain vibration on contact with roses and reds. A reproduction that is too uniformly green would lose Mediterranean heat.
The passages of the sky are more flexible, the facades more angular and the garden made of short, superimposed touches. These differentiated rhythms maintain the balance between air, stone and vegetation.
Documented benchmarks
The Museum Barberini documents Villas at Bordighera, oil on canvas from 1884, 61 × 74 cm, signed and dated lower right, inventory MB-Mon-15 and Wildenstein 857a.
Charles Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera, had his winter residence built in Bordighera between 1871 and 1873. His garden brought together several hundred plant species.
The stay, which began at the beginning of 1884, was supposed to be brief but lasted almost three months. Monet seeks motifs capable of reflecting the intense light and unusual vegetation of the Ligurian coast.
The painting first belonged to the artist's brother, Léon-Pascal Monet, then remained among his descendants before joining the collection now presented in Potsdam.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Villas in Bordighera W857a |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1884 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61 × 74 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany |
| Inventory | MB-Mon-15 · Wildenstein 857a |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This horizontal landscape enlivens a living room, an office or a dining room. Off-white walls, light wood and some gray blue textiles extend the sky; small terracotta touches bring out the flowers and facades.
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