Gare Saint Lazare
Artist: Claude Monet
Year Composed: 1877
Artistic Movement: Impressionist
Nationality: France
Floor Found in Château: Unknown Location
Year Composed: 1877
Artistic Movement: Impressionist
Nationality: France
Floor Found in Château: Unknown Location
About the Artwork
Claude Monet's Gare Saint Lazare, also known as The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train, shows the interaction of light and steam exemplified by Monet's technique. Similar to clouds in the distance, Monet details the playing of light and shadow in the billowing of the steam as it pours from the train engines. This painting is part of the pair that also includes his Interior View of the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line (1877).
About the Artist
As a founder of French Impressionist painting, Claude Monet used the emotional, painterly brushstrokes to depict the beauty and serenity of the French landscape during the 19th and 20th Centuries (or during the 1800s and 1900s). Monet's landscapes, including his Impression, Sunrise (1872), Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur (1865), and Flowers on the Riverbank at Argenteuil (1877), highlight the movement of light and the passage of time over the landscapes - the passing of both days as well as seasons.
About the Movement
Gare Saint Lazare was composed in the Impressionist Age of art. Impressionism was characterized by extremely loose brushstrokes that were visible throughout the entire painting. This 19th-Century (or 1800s) art movement took landscapes, figures, and objects and incorporated both movement and emotion. Impressionism, in a matter of style, was almost the blending between Cubism and Baroque art; that dramatic and emotional appeal of the Baroque mixed with the inclusion of motion and the passing of time of Cubism. Some of the most famous Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
Location of Original Work of Art: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Claude Monet's Gare Saint Lazare, also known as The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train, shows the interaction of light and steam exemplified by Monet's technique. Similar to clouds in the distance, Monet details the playing of light and shadow in the billowing of the steam as it pours from the train engines. This painting is part of the pair that also includes his Interior View of the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line (1877).
About the Artist
As a founder of French Impressionist painting, Claude Monet used the emotional, painterly brushstrokes to depict the beauty and serenity of the French landscape during the 19th and 20th Centuries (or during the 1800s and 1900s). Monet's landscapes, including his Impression, Sunrise (1872), Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur (1865), and Flowers on the Riverbank at Argenteuil (1877), highlight the movement of light and the passage of time over the landscapes - the passing of both days as well as seasons.
About the Movement
Gare Saint Lazare was composed in the Impressionist Age of art. Impressionism was characterized by extremely loose brushstrokes that were visible throughout the entire painting. This 19th-Century (or 1800s) art movement took landscapes, figures, and objects and incorporated both movement and emotion. Impressionism, in a matter of style, was almost the blending between Cubism and Baroque art; that dramatic and emotional appeal of the Baroque mixed with the inclusion of motion and the passing of time of Cubism. Some of the most famous Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
Location of Original Work of Art: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America