Art Institute of Chicago
Houses of Parliament, London
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)LinkedCulture matchlcp-8e614afd9c71
- Date
- 1900–1
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 16584
During his London campaigns, Claude Monet painted the Houses of Parliament in the late afternoon and at sunset from a terrace at Saint Thomas’s Hospital. This viewpoint was close to that of the English artist J. M. W. Turner in his visionary paintings of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834. In his response to the poetry of dusk and mist, however, Monet was actually inspired by the work of a more recent painter of the Thames, the American James McNeill Whistler.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Rosenberg, Paris, by Oct. 10, 1916 [this and the following Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1913–21 (no. 10899, as Westminster, 1903), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 10, 1916, for 22,500 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 6 or Dec. 4, 1916 [per Durand-Ruel, Paris stock book for 1913–21 (no. 10899, as Westminster, 1903) and New York stock book for 1904–24 (no. 4026, as Vue de Londres, Westminster, 1903), both confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file; The Paris and New York Durand-Ruel stock books record different dates for the sale]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 18, 1916, for $10,000 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904–24 (no. 4026, as Vue de Londres, Westminster, 1903), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file; see also, Durand-Ruel to M. A. Ryerson, Dec. 26, 1916, in which Durand-Ruel informs Mr. Ryerson that they sent, on the date of the letter, the painting Mr. Ryerson had recently purchased, excerpt published in Wildenstein 1985]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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