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Follow the building’s jagged silhouette, then look for the same blue and violet tones dissolving into the river and sky.
Monet painted Parliament from a terrace at Saint Thomas’s Hospital, watching the late-afternoon and sunset light across the Thames. Unlike his bridge views from the Savoy Hotel, this composition brings the building close. Its recognizable outline remains even as mist makes the architecture difficult to separate from its surroundings.
Oil on canvas · 81.2 × 92.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Houses of Parliament, London
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1900–1
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.2 × 92.8 cm (32 × 36 9/16 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.