Waterloo Bridge
Claude MONET
(French, 1840-1926)
Waterloo Bridge
Date1900
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 25 3/4 × 36 1/2 in. (65.4 × 92.7 cm)
frame: 33 1/2 × 44 × 3 1/4 in. (85.1 × 111.8 × 8.3 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Bequest of Katharine Dexter McCormick in memory of her husband, Stanley McCormick
Object number1968.20.7
Subject(s)
- river
- boat
- townscapes (built environment)
Collection
- 19th century French
- European
Sub-Collection(s)
- Impressionism
- French
On View
On viewCollections
Label TextMonet often selected motifs that allowed him to capture mingled atmospheric effects, both natural and man-made. This is one of some twenty canvases he painted in his room at the Savoy Hotel in London, looking downstream along the Thames. In this apparitional canvas, factory smoke trails against an early morning sky are made opalescent by the London fog. The increasing abstraction of paintings Monet’s late work seems to anticipate the expressive, highly gestural canvases of later artists, such as Jackson Pollock.
