Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet · 1877 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare is a public-domain painting by Claude Monet, dated 1877. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1877 Monet set up in the Gare Saint-Lazare and painted the glass train shed, with steam standing in for the fog he liked. This is the arrival of the Normandy train.
About the artist
Claude Monet (1840–1926) was a founder of Impressionism. He painted the same motif again and again — haystacks, the Rouen cathedral, the Thames, then the water lilies at Giverny — to catch how light changes.
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