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Waterloo Bridge, jour gris de Claude Monet – National Gallery of Art 1963.10.183

Waterloo Bridge, gray day - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · 1903 · National Gallery of Art · Wildenstein 1569

Waterloo Bridge, gray dayhand painted reproduction

Four blue-brown arches cross a gray Thames; chimneys stand in a pink, smoky sky, while purple plumes descend in front of the bridge to reflections and barges.

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Waterloo Bridge, gray day - Claude Monet - full view
Waterloo Bridge, gray dayClaude Monet · 1903
1903Dating
65.1 × 100 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
1963.10.183Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
Controlled in photoYou see the finished painting before it leaves.
Touch-ups includedAdjustments are made before shipping.

Look at the work

The fumes connect the industrial sky to the boats of the Thames

Waterloo Bridge cuts the composition below the middle and moves slightly to the right. Its face is ash brown, its arches cobalt blue. Above, the buildings on the south bank are reduced to blue-gray verticals; a tall, isolated chimney on the right balances the more massive tower placed near the center.

The shell pink and mauve plumes are the most mobile shapes on the canvas. One climbs behind the bridge, the other seems to pass in front of his deck and falls back towards the water. Under the arches, blue boats and a few orange accents give rhythm to a surface constructed in short horizontal touches.

The day is gray, but never monochrome: Monet circulates pink, turquoise, orange and purple within a deliberately muffled atmosphere.

Composition, touch and light

What Monet builds behind the impression of snapshot

Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.

Analysis of Waterloo Bridge, gray day - Claude Monet
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The four arches as the main rhythm

Their dark curves structure the bottom of the scene. They must remain distinct while blending into the same blues and grays as the reflections.

02

Smoke in front and behind the bridge

The plumes create several planes without linear perspective. Their pale pink advances while the cold chimneys recede into the sky.

03

Very measured warm accents

Small orange and red touches appear on the deck and boats. They liven up the composition without breaking its bluish gray climate.

Details and visual documents

Observe the material and the exact version

The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.

Chimneys and pink plumes - detail of Waterloo Bridge, gray day - Claude Monet
Chimneys and pink plumesThe detail isolates the industrial silhouettes. The chimneys are vertical but their contours remain open, while the fumes are constructed by superimposing pink, mauve, blue and white.
Arches and boats - detail of Waterloo Bridge, gray day - Claude Monet
Arches and boatsUnder the bridge, a blue boat is cut out of a light arch. In the foreground, a dark barge and a few red accents give a ladder to the flow of the Thames.

The official main view reaches 4096 × 2641 px. Details of 2500 × 1450 px and 2700 × 1150 px are native cropping of this master in open access. No files have been enlarged; all three images are in WebP.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.

Identification01

Inventory 1963.10.183, Wildenstein 1569

The National Gallery of Art preserves this 65.1 × 100 cm oil on canvas. Monet signed and dated it lower left "Claude Monet 1903".

Provenance02

From Durand-Ruel to the Chester Dale collection

The painting first belonged to Durand-Ruel, who sold it in 1904 to Franklin F. Nicola. Chester Dale acquired it on January 7, 1933 and bequeathed it to the National Gallery of Art in 1963.

Exhibitions03

Presented in Pittsburgh in 1908

This version was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in the Exhibition of Paintings by the French Impressionists of 1908, then in a new lending exhibition organized at the same location in 1910.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.

  • The ash brown of the apron against the blues of the arches
  • The pink plumes crossing several planes
  • Vertical chimneys without mechanical contours
  • Dark boats and rare orange accents

Work sheet

Title Waterloo Bridge, gray day
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1903
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65.1 × 100 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
Inventory 1963.10.183
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - National Gallery of Art

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A palette designed with the room

The bluish gray, dusty pink and cool brown palette brings a calm depth. It matches greige, smoky blue or off-white walls, as well as dark wood, linen and patinated metal.

Waterloo Bridge, gray day, painted for your interior

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