Provenance

Maurice Barret- Décap

French

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A row of spire-like structures of different heights is silhouetted in azure blue against a soft pink, yellow, peach, and lavender-purple sunset and reflected in a rippling river in this nearly square landscape painting. Along the horizon, the buildings stretch from our right, almost fully across the canvas, and are painted with vertical brushstrokes in cool shades of blue. The sky behind the towers seems hazy with intermingling, pastel-colored clouds. The buildings are reflected in the river, which fills the bottom third of the painting. The surface of the water is painted with short, horizontal brushstrokes in azure blue for the buildings, and apricot, rose, and marigold orange for the sky’s reflection. A streak and smudge of olive-green paint on the water represents a person in a boat near the center of the painting. The artist signed and dated the work in the same olive color at the lower right: “Claude Monet 1903.”
Claude Monet, The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.48

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset

Claude Monet · 1903 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.48

This painting shows a riverside with a cream-colored bridge cutting horizontally across the scene in front of a bustling city. The bridge is decorated with flags that have stripes of red, white, and blue. Closest to us, at the bottom of the painting, large white barges are moored on the reflective blue river, with small people in white shirts floating nearby on wooden platforms. On the left, a pale gray path stretches along the side of the river, with some pedestrians walking on it. In the distance on the right, tall buildings are visible in shades of yellow, blue, peach, and cream. They have pointed roofs with many dark chimneys sticking up into the air. The sky above is blue and full of soft white clouds. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible, and details are suggested with dashes of paint, rather than illustrated clearly.
Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin, The Bridge of Louis Philippe, 1875, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.155

The Bridge of Louis Philippe

Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin · 1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.155