Claude Monet - Houses of Parliament, Westminster 1901
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Houses of Parliament, Westminster 1901
81x92cm oil/canvas
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 :
During his London campaigns, Claude Monet painted the Houses of Parliament in the late afternoon and at sunset from a terrace at Saint Thomas’s Hospital. This viewpoint was close to that of the English artist J. M. W. Turner in his visionary paintings of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834. In his response to the poetry of dusk and mist, however, Monet was actually inspired by the work of a more recent painter of the Thames, the American James McNeill Whistler.