A great opposition between cliff and sea
The dark mass on the left concentrates matter; the light expanse on the right lets the gaze circulate.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Fécamp · 1881 · W650
A high red cliff borders the left of the canvas, while the coast repeats itself in increasingly distant capes. The green-gray sea remains smooth and a few sails punctuate its vast surface. This oil on canvas painted in 1881 measures 60 × 73.5 cm, belongs to the Rudolf Staechelin collection and corresponds to Wildenstein 650, documented under the title Calm Time, Fécamp.

Look at the work
The nearby promontory goes down to a narrow beach. Behind it, the successive cliffs become smaller and colder. The right half remains open to an almost empty sea.
The ochres and reds of the rock are tempered by purple. The water mixes light green, gray and blue, with long horizontal touches. The sky takes the same values and almost erases the separation of the horizon.
Calm does not mean stillness: subtle changes of green, gray and pink make the entire bay breathe.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The dark mass on the left concentrates matter; the light expanse on the right lets the gaze circulate.
Each coastline projection is smaller and less contrasted than the previous one, creating a precise atmospheric depth.
The tiny boats give the scale of the bay and introduce vertical accents into the long touches of the water.
Reference image
A single exact image of W650 is used throughout the listing and as the sole Shopify media. The real WebP measures 790 × 640 px and retains its native definition.
It must keep its color breaks and its irregular profile.
The sky and the sea approach each other in their bluish grays without becoming a single flat area.
Their position is essential to the balance of the large marine surface.
Documented benchmarks
Documentation from Temps calme, Fécamp identifies W650 as an oil on canvas from 1881, 60 × 73.5 cm, belonging to the Rudolf Staechelin collection.
The title Pourville has sometimes circulated for this image, but the catalog raisonné precisely links W650 to Fécamp.
The ratio 60 × 73.5 cm gives enough breadth to the sea while maintaining the nearby cliff as the dominant mass.
The painting has long been presented at the Kunstmuseum Basel with this private Swiss collection.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Quiet weather, Fécamp W650 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1881 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60 × 73.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Rudolf Staechelin Collection, Private Collection |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 650 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This Normandy coast is suitable for a living room, bedroom or office. A sea green, pearl gray or beige wall and a walnut frame accompany its soft light.
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