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Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

1877

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About this work

One of the most avant-garde aspects of the Impressionists was their choice of subject matter, which frequently included scenes derived from modern, industrial Paris, from iron bridges to exhibition halls to train sheds. The train station at Saint-Lazare would have been a familiar, meaningful sight to Claude Monet in the 1870s. The terminal linked Paris to Normandy, where the artist developed his technique of painting outdoors in the 1860s. It was also the point of departure for the towns and villages west and north of Paris that the Impressionists frequently visited. Monet completed eight of his twelve known paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare in time for the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877, probably displaying them in the same gallery.

Monet chose to focus his attention here on the glass-and-iron train shed, where he found an appealing combination of artifi cial and natural effects—the rising steam of locomotives trapped within the structure and the daylight penetrating large, glazed sections of the roof, for instance. Monet’s depictions of the station inaugurated what was to become for him an established pattern of painting a specific motif repeatedly in order to capture subtle and temporal atmospheric changes, as in his famous series of stacks of wheat. But the Saint-Lazare paintings also represented his last attempt to capture urban life: from this point on in his career, Monet largely devoted himself to landscapes.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Original size
60.3 × 80.2 cm (23 3/4 × 31 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago · 1933.1158 ↗
Museum record · 5 owners · 39 exhibitions

Provenance

  • The artist (d. 1926); sold to Ernest Hoschedé, Paris and Montgeron, Mar. 1877.
  • Georges de Bellio (d. 1894), Paris, 1878; by descent his daughter Victorine (de Bellio) Donop de Monchy and son-in-law Eugène Donop de Monchy, Paris, 1894.
  • Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, around 1899.
  • Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by Oct. 13, 1911; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 13, 1911, for 13,000 francs.
  • Durand-Ruel, New York, by Dec. 16, 1911; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 16, 1911, for $7,000; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Exhibitions

  • Paris, 6, rue Le Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture, Apr. 1877, as Arrivée du train de Normandie, gare St-Lazare, appartient à M. H....
  • Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6e exposition international e de peinture et de sculpture, May 8–June 8, 1887, no cat. no. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, June 21–Sept. 21, 1889, as Gare Saint-Lazare.
  • Appartient à M. de Bellio.
  • Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Exposition Universelle de 1900, L’exposition centennale de l’art français de 1800 a 1889, May 1–Nov. 12, 1900, as Le Train de Normandie (à M. Alexandre Bernheim jeune ).
  • Brussels, Libre Esthétique, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, Feb. 25–Mar. 29, 1904, as La Gare Saint-Lazare.
  • Exposition centennale, 1900.
  • Appartient à MM. J. et G. Bernheim jeune.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel, Monet, Dec. 2–23, 1911.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, Mar. 15–Apr. 28, 1935.
  • New York World’s Fair, European & American Paintings, 1500–1900: Masterpieces of Art, May–Oct. 1940.
  • Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, The Railroad in Painting: An Exhibition of Paintings Shown at the Dayton Art Institute, Apr. 19–May 22, 1949.
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, The Painter and the City, May 8–June 15, 1950, no cat. no..
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, Nov. 3, 1950–Feb. 11, 1951.
  • Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-d’oeuvres des collections américaines, Apr. 20–July 3, 1955.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. Munich, Haus der Kunst München, Französische Malerei des 19.
  • Jahrhunderts: Von David bis Cézanne, Oct. 7, 1964–Jan. 6, 1965.
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Past Rediscovered: French Painting, 1800–1900, July 3–Sept. 7, 1969.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, “One Hundred Years of Impressionism:” A Tribute to Durand-Ruel, Apr. 2–May 9, 1970.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–Aug. 8, 1976, no cat. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Manet and Modern Paris, Dec. 5, 1982–Mar. 6, 1983.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Jan. 17–Apr. 6, 1986; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Apr. 19–July 6, 1986.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, a World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994, not in cat. Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
  • Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Claude Monet, Mar. 14–June 16, 1996.
  • Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Impressionister i byen, Sept. 6–Dec. 1, 1996.
  • Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Manet, Monet and the Gare Saint-Lazare, Feb. 9–May 17, 1998; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, June 14–Sept. 20, 1998.
  • Florence, Sala Bianca di Palazzo Pitti, Claude Monet: La poesia della luce; Sette capolavori dell’Art Institute di Chicago a Palazzo Pitti, June 2–Aug. 29, 1999, no cat. no..
  • Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Klod Mone, Nov. 26, 2001–Feb. 21, 2002, Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, May 1–15, 2002.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, April 27–June 15, 2007.
  • Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
  • Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Sept. 22, 2010–Jan. 24, 2011.
  • Munich, Städel Museum, Monet and the Birth of Impressionism, March 11-June 21, 2015.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, June 27-Septembet 30, 2018.
  • Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Impressionism in the Age of Industry, February 16 - May 5 2019 Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
  • Brussels, Musees royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, Tracks to Modernity, Oct. 13, 2021-Feb. 13, 2022.
  • Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Enfin le cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907, Se, 2021-Jan. 16, 2022; Loas Angeles County Museum of Art, City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907, Feb. 20-July 10, 2022.
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