Claude Monet
Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1900–1903
On view at The Courtauld Gallery, London
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Oil on canvas, 81,2 x 92 cm
signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 1903
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-38
Monet began his series Houses of Parliament while visiting London from 1899 to 1901 and continued to develop them in his studio in Giverny. The towers of Westminster Palace stand out as deep blue silhouettes against the red-violet sky, colored by the setting sun amidst the characteristic London smog. As in the work of his role models J. M. W. Turner and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, they appear before a dramatic, cloud-filled sky or dissolve into the fog.
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Monet: Vues de la Tamise, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, autumn 1904, no. 10
Opening Season 1905–1906, Toledo Museum of Art, 1905, no 54
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Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 1911, no. 35
Impressionist and Barbizon Schools, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1919–20
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Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from June 4, 2022
May 1904, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, purchased from the artist
1907, Elizabeth and William Lowell Putnam, Boston, acquired from the above
n.d., Anna and Augustus Lowell Putnam, Boston, by descent from the above
until at least 1962, Katharine and Harvey H. Bundy, Boston, by descent from the above
n.d., Private collection, US
1982, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above
January 22, 1982, Anne H. Bass Collection, acquired from the above
May 12, 2022, Christie’s, New York, lot 10c, consigned by the above
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