Monet's light, brushed by hand in oil
Nineteen Monet subjects painted in oil on canvas by university-trained artists: the Japanese footbridge and water lilies at Giverny, poppy fields, haystacks in changing light, the poplars, and the Seine at dawn. Each one is painted to order in the size and framing you choose, with the broken colour and loaded brushwork Monet worked in. Free delivery Australia-wide, 21 to 28 days.
- 100% hand-painted oil on canvas
- Painted to order in 7 sizes, framed or stretched
- Free delivery Australia-wide, 21 to 28 days
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Rated 4.81/5 from 549 reviews
All 19 Monet oil paintings
Every print is made to order. Stretched ready to hang, or with a floating frame. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Monet | Blue Water Lilies -
Monet | Water Lilies (The Clouds) -
Monet | The Woman with a Parasol -
Monet | Impression, Sunrise -
Monet | Purple Water Lilies -
Monet | San Giorgio Maggiore -
Monet | The Regatta at Argenteuil -
Monet | Houses of Parliament -
Monet | Fishing Boats Leaving the Port of Le Havre -
Monet | Haystacks at Giverny -
Monet | Boulevard des Capucines -
Monet | Saint-Lazare Station -
Monet | River Scene at Bennecourt -
Monet | Grainstacks at Chailly at Sunrise -
Monet | Fishing Boats Leaving the Harbor -
Monet | Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight -
Monet | Venice, The Doge Palace -
Monet | Rouen Cathedral, Sunlight Effect -
Monet | Hotel des Roches Noires
Why Monet
Monet built paintings from separate strokes, so size decides whether they work
An impressionist canvas needs viewing distance to fuse into an image, and a small one never gets it.
Monet painted at scale because broken colour needs room. Up close you see individual dabs of violet, green and rose sitting side by side; step back and your eye mixes them. A hand-painted oil keeps that real physical texture, ridges of paint that catch the light and shift as you move past. A printed copy flattens all of it, which is why Monet reproductions so often look washed out on a wall.
Go bigger than feels safe. Under 90cm wide, the water lilies lose their structure and read as a smudge. Hang at eye level with two to three metres of clear viewing distance if you can, and avoid direct sun on the canvas. Monet's palette leans cool, so these sit well against white, grey-green or pale blue walls, and fight a bit with strong yellows or heavy red-toned timber panelling.
How your painting is made
- Choose the size and finishSeven standard sizes from 60 × 50cm to 200 × 135cm. Stretched ready to hang, rolled, or one of our frames. The size guide on every painting shows it to scale.
- Painted to order, by handA university-trained artist paints your piece in oils on canvas, working from the original. Two to three weeks at the easel, then drying time.
- Stretched, framed, checkedGallery-wrapped or framed in our workshop, then photographed and checked before it leaves.
- Delivered free, Australia-wideMade to order in 21 to 28 days, then tracked to your door. Thirty-day money-back guarantee if it isn't what you hoped.
Questions people ask
Is this a print or a real painting?
A real painting. Every piece is hand-painted in oils on canvas by a professional artist. Nothing here is printed, and nothing is a print with paint dabbed on top.
How close is it to the original?
Very. Our artists work from high-resolution references of the original and match composition, colour and brushwork. Because it is painted by hand, no two are identical, which is rather the point.
What sizes can I order?
Seven standard sizes, from 60 × 50cm up to 200 × 135cm, and custom sizes on request. Open the size guide on any painting to see each size to scale next to a sofa.
Framed or unframed?
Your choice at checkout: stretched and ready to hang, rolled in a tube, or framed in floating, classic or ornate frames. A floating frame adds a few centimetres each side; an ornate frame adds roughly 8 to 12cm.
How long does it take?
21 to 28 days, because it is painted to order. Delivery is free and tracked anywhere in Australia.
What if I don't love it?
Thirty-day money-back guarantee. Tell us within thirty days of delivery and we will make it right or refund you.
About Monet & our reproductions
The life
Claude Monet is the central figure of Impressionism — a movement that had its seed in a chance encounter between a teenaged caricaturist and the landscape painter Eugène Boudin, at the shop of the only picture framer in Le Havre. Boudin coaxed the reluctant young Monet outdoors to paint, and from that moment his subject was fixed: not things, but the light falling on them.
His 1872 harbour study Impression, Sunrise gave the movement its name. From Argenteuil to London to Venice he pursued light obsessively — painting the same haystacks, poplars and cathedral façades again and again as the hours changed them — before settling at Giverny, where the water-lily pond he built became the monumental subject of his final decades.
Our reproductions
Every Monet reproduction at Direct Art Australia is 100% hand-painted in oils on artist canvas by professional artists — never a print. His broken, shimmering brushwork is rebuilt touch by touch so the surface dances like the original. Delivery is free Australia-wide.
Can’t find the Monet work you’re after? We can hand-paint any of his works on request — just ask for a quote.