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Charing Cross bridge

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‘Charing Cross Bridge’ © Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid.

Category

Painting

Date

1899 (19th century)

Artist

Claude Monet

Cultural background

Impressionism

Original title

El puente de Charing Cross

National Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Madrid
Madrid

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This painting is one of a series of views of the Thames produced by Monet between 1899 and 1901 from the Savoy Hotel.

Although all the works in this series vary widely in their subject matter, they share a common purpose: to capture the light filtering through the winter fog. Of the 37 views comprising the series, only 12 were completed on-site, whereas most of them were finished in the painter's studio at Giverny, with less attention to topographical accuracy than to the treatment of the light as a unifying element.