Gare Saint-Lazare (Monet series)
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After working on rural landscapes, Claude Monet returned to Paris in 1877 and made a dozen oil paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris. This was Monet's first series of paintings concentrating on a single theme.
After considering working at the Gare du Nord, he sought permission from the director of the Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Ouest to paint en plein air, at the Gare Saint-Lazare.
The Impressionist paintings capture the smoky interior of this Paris railway station, in varied atmospheric conditions and from various points of view. The works were in part a response to the criticism of his painting Impression, Sunrise, which was exhibited at the First Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874, and also fashionable depictions of technical progress: the modern steam train and the newly extended iron and glass train shed at the station constructed by engineer Eugène Flachat.
Eight of the paintings were exhibited at the Émile Zola, who later wrote his 1890 novel La Bête humaine about the railways.
in Paris in April 1877, where they were admired byExamples of the works are held by many public collections.
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Title | Museum | City | Country | Dimensions (cm) (in) |
#[1] | Illus. |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare | Musée d'Orsay[2] | Paris | France | 75 cm × 105 cm 30 in × 41 in |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d'un train | Fogg Art Museum[3] | Cambridge | United States | 81.9 cm × 101 cm 32.2 in × 39.8 in |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare, le train de Normandie | Chicago Institute of Art[4] | Chicago | United States | 59.6 cm × 80.2 cm 23.5 in × 31.6 in |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare | National Gallery[5] | London | UK | 53 cm × 72 cm 21 in × 28 in |
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Le Pont de l'Europe, gare Saint-Lazare | Musée Marmottan Monet | Paris | France | 64 cm × 81 cm 25 in × 32 in |
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Extérieur de la gare Saint-Lazare, effet de soleil | Private collection | 60 cm × 81 cm 24 in × 32 in |
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Extérieur de la gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d'un train | Private collection | 60 cm × 72 cm 24 in × 28 in |
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Les Voies à la sortie de la gare Saint-Lazare | Pola Museum of Art | Hakone | Japan | 60 cm × 80 cm 24 in × 31 in |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure | Private collection | 60 cm × 80 cm 24 in × 31 in |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure | Private collection | 64 cm × 81 cm 25 in × 32 in |
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La Gare Saint-Lazare, les signaux | Lower Saxony State Museum | Hannover | Germany | 65 cm × 81 cm 26 in × 32 in |
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La Tranchée des Batignolles | Würth Collection | Rome | Italy | 38 cm × 46 cm 15 in × 18 in |
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References[]
- ^ 1996, Daniel Wildenstein, Catalogue raisonné
- ^ "La Gare Saint-Lazare". Musée d'Orsay.
- ^ "Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train, 1877". Harvard/Fogg Art Museum.
- ^ "Claude Monet, Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877". Chicago Institute of Art.
- ^ "The Gare St-Lazare, 1877, Claude Monet". National Gallery. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
External links[]
- 1877 paintings
- Paintings by Claude Monet
- Trains in art
- Paris in art