Claude Monet - Charing Cross Bridge, London 1901
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Charing Cross Bridge, London 1901
65x92cm oil/canvas
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From the Art Institute of Chicago :
Beginning in September 1899, Claude Monet made almost one hundred paintings of the river Thames in London. These works show only three different views—Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge, both painted from the Savoy Hotel; and the Houses of Parliament, painted from Saint Thomas’s Hospital. In the smoggy, industrial city, Monet challenged himself to capture effects of light seen through a dense atmospheric screen. Beyond the rectilinear skeleton of Charing Cross Bridge—reminiscent of bridges in Japanese prints, which the artist collected—rises the ghostlike silhouette of the Houses of Parliament.