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Compare the firm diagonal beams of the roof with the steam drifting through them. Where does the station become hard to distinguish?
Saint-Lazare connected Paris with Normandy and the suburban places where Monet painted. In 1877, he made twelve known views of the station and completed eight in time for the Impressionist exhibition. Here, steam and daylight transform an industrial building into a study of changing atmosphere.
Oil on canvas · 60.3 × 80.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.3 × 80.2 cm (23 3/4 × 31 1/2 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 100.4 × 10.2 cm (31 3/4 × 39 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.