Le Parlement, coucher de soleil

1904

not on display
Claude Monet1840 Paris – 1926 Giverny
We have 17 artworks by Claude Monet online.
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Monet composed this theme nineteen times; this is probably the version with the most dramatic mood. His location was a terrace of St. Thomas Hospital, not far from Westminster Bridge. With such paintings, the painter places himself in the tradition of Turner and Claude Lorrain. Monet loved this painting so much that he did not want to give it out of his hand at first. A version of the same mood, much more strongly worked on in the studio, completely 'painted over' and correspondingly gentler, more heavily influenced by the style of the times, reached the Louvre in 1911 (Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Daniel Wildenstein: Monet. Catalog raisonné, 4 vols. (Cologne 1996), vol. IV, no. 1610).
Also known as
Das Parlament, Sonnenuntergang Houses of Parliament, Sunset
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 81 x 92 cm
Inventory number
1995/0003
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Walter Haefner, 1995