Houses of Parliament in the Fog
Claude Monet
French, 1840–1926

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
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.
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