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Houses of Parliament, London  1901

by Claude Monet

During his London campaigns, Claude Monet painted the Houses of Parliament in the late afternoon and at sunset from a terrace at Saint Thomas’s Hospital. This viewpoint was close to that of the English artist J. M. W. Turner in his visionary paintings of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834. In his response to the poetry of dusk and mist, ...
Size: 
81.2 x 92.8 cm (32 x 36 9/16 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons