Charing Cross Bridge
Claude MONET
(French, 1840-1926)
Charing Cross Bridge
Date1899
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 25 1/8 × 31 3/8 in. (63.8 × 79.7 cm)
frame: 33 1/2 × 39 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (85.1 × 100.3 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Bequest of Katharine Dexter McCormick in memory of her husband, Stanley McCormick
Object number1968.20.4
Subject(s)
- river
- boat
- landscape, city scenes
- transportation
Collection
- 19th century French
Sub-Collection(s)
- Impressionism
On View
Not on viewLabel TextClaude Monet’s three trips to London between 1899 and 1901 resulted in around 100 paintings of the Thames River: at Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge (seen here), and the Houses of Parliament. A recent exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in London brought together many of these works, demonstrating how Monet faithfully painted in his signature style what he saw before him: in this case, layers of pollution filling the skies of London that transformed the Thames and its city into hazy scenes of light, form and color. Monet's increasingly abstract London views are perhaps ironically due then as much to his Impressionist brushwork as to witnessing the corrosive effects of the 19th century's Industrial Revolution.
