Waterloo Bridge
Claude Monet · 1901 · pastel on blue wove paper
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About this picture
Waterloo Bridge is a public-domain drawing by Claude Monet, dated 1901. Pastel on blue wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Waterloo Bridge” (1901) belongs to Monet’s habit of staying with one motif — a bridge, a field, a station, the Thames, the lily pond — and painting it again as the light changed.
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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