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Monet, restored for print
Claude Monet died in 1926, and his life's work has been in the public domain worldwide for decades. We restore his paintings from archival scans and sell them as 350+ finished prints in four formats. Twelve of them, chosen and annotated by the studio, are below.
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The icons, restored
Impression, Sunrise, 1872
The harbour sketch that named the whole movement when a critic tried to insult it in 1874. Everything depends on one orange sun holding its heat against grey-blue mist — the first balance a tired copy loses, and the one restored here.
Le Havre · four formats
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Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875
Camille and young Jean on a windy bluff, caught in what looks like a single afternoon. The dress is not white at all — it is sky-blue and grass-green in borrowed light, and keeping those tints out of plain grey is the whole restoration.
Argenteuil · four formats
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Poppies, 1873
Two pairs of walkers — Camille and Jean, painted twice over — drifting down a hillside outside Argenteuil. The reds are scattered, never massed; they only work when the silvery green of the field stays honest around them.
Argenteuil · four formats
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Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899
The Japanese footbridge in its green year, before the wisteria grew over the rail and the late versions turned to fire. A hundred close greens from willow to water; recovered properly, they read as depth instead of mud.
Giverny · four formats
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Water Lilies, 1908
From the pond series Monet showed in Paris in 1909, when four dozen water canvases filled one gallery. This is the softest register of the set — grey-violet water, celadon pads, shell-pink blooms — exactly the colours a dull copy erases first.
Giverny · four formats
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Grainstack (Sun in the Mist), 1891
One stack backlit through winter haze, from the series he repainted as the light moved across the same field. The mist is a single long gradient of pink and straw-gold — the kind of passage that falls apart in a worn file and stays smooth here.
Giverny · four formats
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Deeper into the catalogue
Six more, in the order he painted them — the Seine to Giverny.
The Magpie, 1868–69
One black bird on a gate in snow that is never actually white — Monet built it from lilacs, blues and creams. The Salon jury of 1869 turned it away; the shadows they mistrusted are the first thing to protect in printing.
Normandy · four formats
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La Grenouillère, 1869
Bathers and a floating café on the Seine, painted shoulder to shoulder with Renoir in the summer of 1869 — two easels where Impressionism effectively begins. The water is all short dashes, and at print size every one keeps its edge.
Bougival · four formats
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Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877
Steam under the glass shed at Saint-Lazare — the story goes Monet persuaded the stationmaster to hold trains and stoke the engines for him. The smoke runs blue, grey and violet, so this picture lives or dies by its mid-tones.
Paris · four formats
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Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882
Two figures on the chalk cliffs above a sea full of small sails, from a restorative summer on the Normandy coast. The wind is painted rather than implied — grass, dresses and water all lean together, carried by a turquoise that has to stay clean.
Pourville · four formats
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Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight, 1894
One canvas of the thirty-odd he painted of this façade from rented rooms across the square, chasing the light hour by hour. The stone is really blue, gold and rose — grey only turns up when a reproduction gives up.
Rouen · four formats
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Houses of Parliament, Effect of Sunlight, 1903
Painted from a terrace across the Thames and finished from memory at Giverny, with dozens of London canvases going at once. The towers are a blue silhouette in fog; the sun-glitter on the water is the passage worth printing large.
London · four formats
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The rest of the room
The works above are a taste — the catalogue holds 350+ Monet works. Browse it by subject:
Choosing a format
Rolled poster
The cheapest way in — pick it if you already own a frame or want one chosen for the room, not the shipment.
Framed paper
Arrives ready to hang, glass over paper — the classic museum-print look, and the safest default for most rooms.
Stretched canvas
No glass, no glare — texture close to a painting's, and a natural fit for painterly surfaces.
Framed canvas
The canvas texture with a finished edge — the most furniture-like of the four, and the largest sizes live here.
Prices vary by size and format; every listing shows all options in your own currency. Undecided? Ourprint format guidecompares the four honestly.
From the journal
Why is this work free to print in the first place?Monet and the public domain — the full guide →