Details

Title

Houses of Parliament in the Fog

Artist/Maker

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Date

1903

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

32 x 36 3/8 inches

Credit

Purchase with Great Painting Fund in honor of Sarah Belle Broadnax Hansell

Accession #

60.5

On View

Currently not on view

In the early 1900s, Impressionist painter Claude Monet made a series of views of the Houses of Parliament in London. He worked from a balcony of Saint Thomas’s Hospital, directly across the River Thames. In this view, the Thames is covered by thick fog, and the Houses of Parliament loom in the distance. As is typical of Monet’s very late work, with its lack of spatial depth and very free brushwork, this painting verges on abstraction.