1877
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare is a 1877 oil by Claude Monet, a Impressionism work, depicting Train, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a steam train arriving at a busy Paris station. The glass roof traps swirling steam. Sunlight spills through, making everything shimmer. Monet painted this in 1877. He used thick, fast brushstrokes to catch the moment. The station felt modern, not just a subject. This was new for art. Look up the Art Institute of Chicago to see this painting in person.
One of the most avant-garde aspects of the Impressionists was their choice of subject matter, which frequently included scenes derived from modern, industrial Paris, from iron bridges to exhibition halls to train sheds. The train station at Saint-Lazare would have been a familiar, meaningful sight to Claude Monet in the 1870s. The terminal linked Paris to Normandy, where the artist developed his technique of painting outdoors in the 1860s. It was also the point of departure for the towns and villages west and north of Paris that the Impressionists frequently visited. Monet completed eight of…
The artist (d. 1926); sold to Ernest Hoschedé, Paris and Montgeron, Mar. 1877 [this and the following per Wildenstein 1996]. Georges de Bellio (d. 1894), Paris, 1878; by descent his daughter Victorine (de Bellio) Donop de Monchy and son-in-law Eugène Donop de Monchy, Paris, 1894 [per Niculescu, Paragone 249 (Nov. 1970)]. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, around 1899 [this and the following per Wildenstein 1996]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by Oct. 13, 1911; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 13, 1911, for 13,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1901 (no. 9749, as La gare Saint-Lazare, le train de…
Paris, 6, rue Le Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture [third Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1877, cat. 97, as Arrivée du train de Normandie, gare St-Lazare, appartient à M. H . . . . Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6e exposition international e de peinture et de sculpture, May 8–June 8, 1887, no cat. no. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, June 21–Sept. 21, 1889, cat. 33, as Gare Saint-Lazare. 1877. Appartient à M. de Bellio. Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Exposition Universelle de 1900, L’exposition centennale de l’art français de 1800 a 1889, May 1–Nov. 12, 1900,…
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Oscar-Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840, and raised from the age of five in Le Havre, where he began selling charcoal caricatures as a teenager.
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