MONET, Claude
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1926, Giverny)

The Thames below Westminster

c. 1871
Oil on canvas, 47 x 63 cm
National Gallery, London

In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet and his family settled in London. The city offered several new motifs for Monet's painting, however, he produced only a few pictures on the River Thames, the Green Park, and the Hyde Park. In the present painting he shows the misty atmosphere of the capital on a spring day, with the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge in the background.




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