1900
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Houses of Parliament, London is a 1900 oil by Claude Monet, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows the Houses of Parliament in London. It's a view of the buildings in the late afternoon. The artist used soft colors to show the misty atmosphere. The painting is interesting because Monet painted it from a unique spot, a terrace at a hospital. He was inspired by other artists who painted the Thames. Check out the work of artist Claude Monet.
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.
Rosenberg, Paris, by Oct. 10, 1916 [this and the following Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1913–21 (no. 10899, as Westminster, 1903), 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 Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 10, 1916, for 22,500 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 6 or Dec. 4, 1916 [per Durand-Ruel, Paris stock book for 1913–21 (no. 10899, as Westminster, 1903) and New York stock book for 1904–24 (no. 4026, as Vue de Londres, Westminster, 1903), both confirmed by…
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, Dec. 29, 1939–Jan. 28, 1940, cat. L-132 (ill.). University of Chicago, Lexington Hall, Nov. 28–Dec. 19, 1951, no cat. Chicago, Remington Rand, window display, Apr. 14–30, 1952, no cat. Wichita (Kans.) Art Museum, Three Centuries of French Painting, May 9–23, 1954, cat. 18. Park Forest (Ill.) Art Center, Mar. 25–Apr. 22, 1956, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no.…
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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