An orange sun hangs near the top right of a misty blue harbour, and below it a long column of orange and gold strokes trembles down the water towards two small dark boats.
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Calm enough for a bedroom or a bathroom and striking above a sofa, it suits walls in grey-blue, navy, warm white or soft terracotta.
Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV
Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →
How large can I print it?
The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →
Which paper or surface?
Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.
Which licence do I need?
Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →
Almost everything here is blue haze, which is exactly why the sun feels so bright. That small orange disc near the top right is the strongest colour in the picture, and its reflection drops straight down through the water in short broken strokes of orange and gold, leading the eye from sky to sea. Left of centre, two small rowing boats sit dark on the water, each with a figure, giving the scene scale and a quiet human presence. Further back, masts and ships dissolve into the morning mist, barely more than a few faint marks. The brushwork stays loose everywhere, with water and sky handled in the same soft way. Seen up close the gold strokes shimmer one by one; from the doorway the whole harbour reads as one cool, still dawn with a single warm spark.
Monet painted the original Impression, Sunrise in 1872, looking out over the harbour of Le Havre, the Normandy port where he grew up. Two years later he showed it in Paris at the first exhibition of a group of independent artists, held in the former studio of the photographer Nadar. The critic Louis Leroy mocked the picture in the satirical paper Le Charivari, and from his review the label Impressionists stuck to the whole group. The painting now belongs to the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. Our version is a reimagining in an upright format instead of the original's wide one, and gold now runs through the sun's reflection on the water.
Next to Golden Girl with a Pearl Earring it brings two shades of blue into one room, Dutch ultramarine beside French morning haze. With The Golden Crescent the pair moves from dawn to night in calm blue and gold. Grey-blue, navy and warm white walls let the orange sun glow, while a terracotta or rust wall picks up its colour directly. A thin black frame sharpens the misty scene; light oak keeps it soft. A white mat of about six centimetres frames the sea nicely. Morning light suits a sunrise, so an east-facing room is ideal. From the 7168 × 10752 px file it prints sharp to about 60 × 90 cm. The download also holds a Frame TV version with a gallery mat.
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