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Follow the repeating arches across the center, then compare the warm glints along the bridge with the blue-violet haze around it.
Monet watched Waterloo Bridge from the Savoy Hotel in the morning. Although this canvas is dated 1903, the museum considers it likely to have been begun in 1900. He continued working on the London pictures in Giverny, treating them as an ensemble rather than dispatching each one immediately to his dealer.
Oil on canvas · 65.7 × 101 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.7 × 101 cm (25 7/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 88.9 × 123.2 × 10.8 cm (35 × 48 1/2 × 4 1/4 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.