Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1903
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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
- 65.7 × 101 cm (25 7/8 × 39 3/4 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 11 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 11, 1904, for 9,000 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Dec. 14, 1904 or Jan. 6, 1905; sold to W. A. Putnam, Jan. 10, 1905, for $4,000; sold back to Durand-Ruel, New York, May 22, 1913, for 25,000 francs; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Feb. 10, 1914, for $7,500; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Claude Monet: Vues de la Tamise à Londres, May 9–June 4, 1904, as Effet de Soleil.
- 1903, under the heading Waterloo Bridge.
- Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, as La Tamise à Londres.
- Effet de Soleil.
- (Waterloo Bridge.) 1903.
- Lent by W. A. Putnam, Esq.
- Chicago, Stratford Hotel, Tableaux Durand-Ruel, late Jan.–early Feb. 1914, no cat. no. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University, Fine Arts Department, French Painting of the 19th-Century, Nov. 15–Dec. 5, 1942, no cat. Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Museum, 19th Century French Paintings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (circuit exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts), June 1–June 22, 1948, no cat.; Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum, Sept. 9–30, 1948, no cat.; Probably Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar College Art Gallery, Oct. 15–Nov. 5, 1948; Probably Manchester, N.H., Currier Gallery of Art, Nov. 16–Dec. 7, 1948; Saginaw (Mich.) Museum, as Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting, Dec. 19, 1948–Jan. 9, 1949; Probably Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Jan. 23–Feb. 15, 1949; Probably Memphis, Tenn., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Mar. 1–22, 1949, no cat.; Utica, N.Y., Munson–Williams-Proctor Institute, Apr. 3–24, 1949, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. San Francisco Museum of Art, Civic Center, Nov. 1959, no, Hayward Gallery, The Impressionists in London, Jan. 3–Mar. 11, 1973.
- New York, David T. Schiff, Feb. 3–May 30, 1975, no cat. Shelburne (Vt.) Museum, Apr. 19–Nov. 3, 1995, no cat. 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..
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Turner; Whistler; Monet, June 12–Sept. 12, 2004; Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Oct. 12, 2004–Jan. 17, 2005; London, Tate Britain, Feb. 10–May 15, 2005.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
