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Charing Cross Bridge is a series of oil paintings by French artist Claude Monet. The paintings depict a misty, impressionist Charing Cross Bridge in London, England. Monet worked on the series from 1899 to 1905, creating a total of 37 paintings depicting the bridge.
Beginning in September 1899, Claude Monet made almost one hundred paintings of the river Thames in London. These works show only three different views—Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge, both painted from the Savoy Hotel; and the Houses of Parliament, painted from Saint Thomas’s Hospital.
The medieval monumental cross, the Charing Cross (1294–1647), was the largest and most ornate instance of a chain of medieval Eleanor crosses running from Lincoln to this location.
Title: Charing Cross Bridge. Creator Lifespan: 1840 - 1926. Creator Nationality: French. Creator Gender: Male. Date Created: about 1900. Type: oil paintings. Rights: Gift of Several Friends...
Sep 30, 2016 · A Fauvist painting of the bridge by André Derain, who visited London in 1906 and was influenced by Monet. The oil on canvas shows vibrant and unblended colors and a different perspective from impressionism.
Through the thick London fog, we can see Charing Cross railway bridge in the foreground, where a plume of smoke indicates the passage of a train. In the background, the almost ghostly outline...
He rented the same room on the sixth floor of the Savoy Hotel on the Victoria Embankment and painted the view from his window of south London and the Thames. The resultant works — more than a hundred paintings and twenty pastels — formed the largest series he had produced to that date.
