Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1900
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About this work
If not for the fog, Claude Monet once remarked, “London wouldn’t be a beautiful city. It’s the fog that gives it its magnificent breadth.” While working on his London series, he rose early every day to paint Waterloo Bridge in the morning, moving on to Charing Cross Bridge at midday and in the afternoon. He observed both motifs from his fifth-floor window at the Savoy Hotel. The Art Institute’s two Waterloo Bridge paintings are dated 1900 and 1903, but both were likely begun in 1900 and dated only when Monet felt that they were finished. He worked on all of his London paintings in his studio in Giverny, refusing to send any of them to his dealer until he was satisfied with them as an ensemble.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65.4 × 92.6 cm (25 3/4 × 36 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 9 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 11, 1904, for 9,000 francs; sold to Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Nov. 28, 1904, for 11,500 francs.
- Albrecht Guttmann, Berlin, by May 18, 1917; sold at the Albrecht Guttmann, Berlin, sale, Paul Cassirer (Berlin) and Hugo Helbing (Munich), Berlin, May 18, 1917, lot 69.
- Howard Young, New York.
- Berthe Honoré Palmer, Chicago.
- Anderson Gallery, Chicago, c. 1927; sold to William Redfield, Chicago, c. 1927; given to his sister, Ethel R. Harris, Chicago, c. 1930; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, beginning in 1984.
Exhibitions
- Probably Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Claude Monet: Vues de la Tamise à Londres, May 9–June 4, 1904, as Temps gris.
- 1900, under the heading Waterloo Bridge.
- Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Neue Ausstellung, Werke von: Claude Monet, Louis Corinth, Hans Thoma, Manet, Degas.
- Skulpturen von Rodin u.A., Oct. 9–Nov. 20, 1904, as Waterloo Bridge, temps gris.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Apr. 15–May 7, 1961, no cat. no. Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces from Private Collections in Chicago, July 12–Aug. 31, 1969, no cat. no. Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Mone ten, Feb. 11–Apr. 7, 1994; Nagoya City Art Museum, Apr. 16–June 12, 1994; Hiroshima Museum of Art, June 18–July 31, 1994.
- Shelburne (Vt.) Museum, Apr. 19–Nov. 3, 1995, no cat. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, October 6, 2018 - January 6, 2019; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, January 26, 2019 - April 28, 2019.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
- London, Courtauld Institute of Art, Monet and London: Views of the Thames, Se, 2024–Jan. 19, 2025.
