An autonomous pochade
The museum describes the work as a notation or notebook page rather than a preparatory study. Its open and unfinished character is part of its language.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1892 · Rouen 1995.7.1 · W1315
From the Sainte-Catherine coast, Rouen appears like a colorful mist crossed by the spiers of the cathedral. Monet places thin bands of yellow, pink, blue and gray on a canvas sometimes left visible. This notation from 1892 is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen.

Look at the work
The city occupies a wide middle strip where houses, roofs and factories merge. In the center, the verticals of the cathedral and Saint-Maclou are enough to identify Rouen. The pale yellow sky and the blue hills envelop these silhouettes.
The touch is light, almost transparent. Monet does not seek the impasto of the Cathedrals: he uses the oil like a watercolor, revealing the grain of the canvas and superimposing very fine chromatic layers.
W1315 is less a topographical view than a note of light: Rouen fits in a few verticals in the middle of the mist.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The museum describes the work as a notation or notebook page rather than a preparatory study. Its open and unfinished character is part of its language.
The canvas measures 65 × 100 cm. Monet painted it while he was working in Rouen, but here chose a panorama from the heights rather than a close framing on the portal.
The work bears the workshop stamp at the bottom right. Long preserved by the heirs, it was revealed to the public in 1994 then acquired by the Rouen museum in 1995.
Reference image
Only one image is used: the full view of W1315, converted to a true WebP of 2560 × 1625 px, without artificial enlargement.
The silhouette of the cathedral must remain fine but present. It gives the scale and identity of the city without breaking the general atmosphere.
The palette is deliberately muffled. Colors are placed in horizontal bands and must maintain their transparency rather than becoming opaque.
Reserves and friction are essential. Reproduction must preserve these light areas, because they explain the impression of a vision captured quickly.
Documented benchmarks
The national notice identifies this General View of Rouen under inventory 1995.7.1 and Wildenstein number 1315.
This oil on canvas from 1892 measures 65 × 100 cm. It is marked with the Claude Monet workshop stamp at the bottom right.
Presented for the first time during the Rouen exhibition, Monet's Cathedrals in 1994, it entered the museum the following year.
The panorama dominates the loop of the Seine. The cathedral emerges in the center, surrounded by a modern city that Monet blends into the same atmosphere.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | General view of Rouen W1315 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1892 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65 × 100 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Rouen Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen, France |
| Inventory | 1995.7.1 · Wildenstein 1315 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Its powdery tones and large format bring calm light to a living room, office or dining room. The reproduction matches ivory walls, light oak and bluish gray textiles.
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