The quintessential Impressionist painter Claude Monet experimented very directly with creating series of motifs observed over changing conditions of weather and times of day.
Although the vast majority of his works were done in France—in Paris and along the Seine, in Brittany, at Giverny—Monet spent the winters between 1899 and 1901 in London, where he painted chiefly the Waterloo and Charing Cross bridges and the Houses of Parliament filtered through the smoke-filled London skies and the foggy atmosphere of the Thames River. Painting what he could witness from his Savoy Hotel balcony, Monet in this canvas captured the Waterloo Bridge and the incredible effects created by a dense fog as it mingles with plumes of smoke from the nearby industrial furnaces.
Today, the painting is in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 30 November, 1999.
