1901
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Charing Cross Bridge, London is a 1901 oil by Claude Monet, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a painting of Charing Cross Bridge in London. It's a city scene with a bridge and boats on the river. The artist painted this during a time when London was very smoggy, which affected how the light looked, and he tried to show that in his work, focusing on the effects of light through the smoke and fog. He made almost 100 paintings of the Thames River, showing only a few different views, like this bridge and another one. He painted these from a hotel, which gave him a good spot to watch the light change. Check out Claude Monet to learn more about his work.
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…
The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 30, 1905, for 8,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1901–13 (no. 8018, as Londres, Charing Cross Bridge, soleil couchant, 1901), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Adrien Hébrard, as agent for the Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram), Paris, Dec. 20, 1905, for 15,000 francs; sold back to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Apr. 4, 1914, for 15,000 francs [this and…
University of Chicago, Classics Building, The Quarter-Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago, Paintings of the French Impressionist School, June 21–Sept. 1, 1916, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 294. Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 212. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11,…
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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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