Houses of Parliament series (Monet)
Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stays in London between the years 1900-1905. The paintings have all the same size and viewpoint,[1] Monet's window at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames.[2] They are however painted at different times of the day and at different weather circumstances.
By now he had abandoned his earlier working practice of completing a painting on the spot in front of the motif. He carried on refining the images back in France, and sent to London for photographs to help in this. This caused some adverse reaction, but Monet's reply was that his means of creating a work was his own business, and it was up to the viewer to judge the final result.
Gallery
Some of the paintings in the London Parliament series:
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Houses of Parliament, London, 1900-1901 The Art Institute of Chicago
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Parlement, coucher du soleil (sunset), 1902, private collection
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Le Parlement, Effet de Brouillard, 1903, Museum of Fine-Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
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Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant, 1903, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC.
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The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC.
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Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil), 1903, Brooklyn Museum
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The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), 1903-1904, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Houses of Parliament, stormy sky, 1904, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France
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Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Kunsthaus Zürich
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Houses of Parliament, London, Musée Marmottan Monet, 1905
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Photograph of the Houses of Parliament from London Eye
References
Further reading
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- Baker, Jacob; Thornes, John E. (8 December 2006). "Solar Position within Monet's Houses of Parliament". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 462 (2076): 3775–3788. Bibcode:2006RSPSA.462.3775B. doi:10.1098/rspa.2006.1754.