À propos de l’œuvre
Charing Cross Bridge, reflets sur la Tamise, par Claude Monet
Claude Monet · 1899 -1904 · Baltimore · W1532
Charing Cross Bridge, reflections on the Thameshand painted reproduction
Charing Cross Bridge crosses a blue-green Thames saturated with light. A small steamboat advances in the foreground, while Parliament stands to the right like a turquoise silhouette almost dissolved in the London fog.
Look at the work
The bridge divides the canvas between a faded city and a river full of reflections
Monet places the bridge deck a little below the center. The blue piers descend into the water in the form of short, unstable reflections, while the bridge line remains continuous enough to lead the gaze to the Westminster Towers on the right.
The sky and the Thames take on the same bluish grays, water greens and pale yellows, but their material differs. The mist is treated in flexible and superimposed passages; the river fragments into small horizontal touches which catch the light around the boat.
In this version, the sun is not directly represented: its presence can be read in the creamy yellow shards that slide from the sky towards the surface of the Thames.
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.
A stable bridge line in a mobile atmosphere
The apron must remain readable without becoming a hard outline. Monet constructs it with a succession of blues and greens which blend in places into the mist.
Westminster pushed back to the right edge
The towers of Parliament do not form the central subject. Their lateral position gives depth and balances the more diffuse mass of the buildings on the left bank.
A tiny boat that adjusts the entire scale
The dark hull and white steam take up little surface area, but they bring the foreground closer together and make the distance to the bridge perceptible.
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.
The documented view measures 1,368 × 886 px; details measure 1,100 × 420 px and 1,050 × 420 px. No files have been enlarged and all three images are real WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
Three pieces of information specific to this work
The dimensions, dating, object number and location concern precisely the canvas preserved in Baltimore; number W1532 refers to Claude Monet's catalog raisonné.
Version 1945.94, referenced Wildenstein 1532
The Baltimore Museum of Art dates the oil on canvas to 1899 -1904 and reads 65.1 × 100.3 cm without the frame. The correspondence to the catalog raisonné is W1532.
The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection
The work is numbered 1945.94 and belongs to the museum's Eisenberg ensemble. The notice indicates it exhibited in the Cone Wing, Gallery 2.
A high view of the Thames
Monet observes Charing Cross Bridge from the Savoy Hotel. He organizes his paintings into series in order to use the same motif under changing lights and mists.
Your reproduction
What the painter must preserve
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
- The exact version 1945.94, Wildenstein 1532
- The original format of 65.1 × 100.3 cm
- The legible bridge without excessively sharp outline
- Pale yellows preserved in blue-green grays
Work sheet
| Title | Charing Cross Bridge, reflections on the Thames |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1899 - 1904 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.1 × 100.3 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States |
| Inventory | 1945.94 · Wildenstein 1532 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
A palette designed with the room
Mist blue, sea green, pearl gray and pale yellow create a clear and soothing harmony. This reproduction is particularly suitable for an ivory, warm gray, mist blue or sage green wall.
