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Waterloo Bridge (Monet series)

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Hermitage version (Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog)

Waterloo Bridge is a series of 41 impressionist oil paintings of the 1807–1810 Waterloo Bridge in London by Claude Monet, produced between 1900 and 1904 and forming a sub-series within his larger 'London series' alongside the Charing Cross Bridge series and the Houses of Parliament series.

Context

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Under exile during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet travelled to London for the first time in 1870.[1] Monet became enthralled with the city, and vowed to return to it someday. His fascination with London lay primarily in its fogs,[2] a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution. But writers hypothesize that Monet was also inspired by contemporaries J. M. W. Turner and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who were similarly mesmerised by London's atmosphere and atmospheric effects.[3][4] In 1899 Monet returned to London and rented a room in the Savoy Hotel, which offered an extensive viewpoint from which to begin his series of the city.[5]

Between 1899 and 1905, Monet periodically travelled to London to work on paintings.[6] He repeatedly painted the Waterloo Bridge and created other paintings of the city's sights, including the Houses of Parliament series and Charing Cross Bridge series. While Monet began all of the paintings in London, he completed many of them in his studio in Giverny.

Selected works

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Image Title
Date
Dimensions (cm) Collection
Waterloo Bridge (W1555)
65 x 93
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Waterloo Bridge, London
65 x 100
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
Waterloo Bridge in London Stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, burnt by the mother of the thief to destroy the evidence.[7]
Waterloo Bridge in London (W1594)
66 x 100
National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo)
Waterloo Bridge
86 x 121
Denver Art Museum
Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog.
65 x 101
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Waterloo Bridge by Twilight National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.[8]
Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.[9]
Waterloo Bridge, Sun Through Fog
74 x 100
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Waterloo Bridge, Cloudy Weather
65 x 100
Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
Waterloo Bridge, Sun
65 x 100
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun
65 x 100
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
Waterloo Bridge by Twilight Private collection

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Khan, Soraya; Thornes, John E.; Baker, Jacob; Olson, Donald W.; Doescher, Russell L. (2010). "Monet at the Savoy". Area. 42 (2): 208–216. Bibcode:2010Area...42..208K. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00913.x. ISSN 1475-4762.
  2. ^ House, John, 1945-2012. (1991). Monet. Monet, Claude, 1840–1926. (3rd ed.). London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-2723-1. OCLC 28061909.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Sweetman, John (2019-05-23). The Artist and the Bridge 1700–1920. doi:10.4324/9780429440083. ISBN 9780429440083. S2CID 241749768.
  4. ^ House, John, 1945-2012. (1991). Monet. Monet, Claude, 1840-1926. (3rd ed.). London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-2723-1. OCLC 28061909.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Khan, Soraya; Thornes, John E.; Baker, Jacob; Olson, Donald W.; Doescher, Russell L. (2010). "Monet at the Savoy". Area. 42 (2): 208–216. Bibcode:2010Area...42..208K. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00913.x. ISSN 1475-4762.
  6. ^ Khan, Soraya; Thornes, John E.; Baker, Jacob; Olson, Donald W.; Doescher, Russell L. (2010). "Monet at the Savoy". Area. 42 (2): 208–216. Bibcode:2010Area...42..208K. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00913.x. ISSN 1475-4762.
  7. ^ "Stolen Picasso and Monet art 'burned' in Romanian oven". BBC. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Catalogue entry". National Gallery of Art. 1904.
  9. ^ "Catalogue entry". National Gallery of Art. 1903.