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The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) de Claude Monet – Metropolitan Museum 56.135.6
  • The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) de Claude Monet – Metropolitan Museum 56.135.6
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  • The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) de Claude Monet – Metropolitan Museum 56.135.6
  • Détail des tours de Victoria dans le brouillard bleu et orangé du Parlement de Monet
  • Détail de la Tamise, du bateau et des reflets dans The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog)
The Parliament of London, fog effect - Claude Monet

The Parliament of London, fog effect - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · 1903 -1904 · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 56.135.6

The Parliament of London, fog effecthand painted reproduction

Victoria Tower and the pinnacles of Westminster emerge like a petrol blue mass in a gray-green mist. To the right, an orange glow passes through the air; in the foreground, a dark boat slides across a Thames where almost all limits have disappeared.

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The Parliament of London, fog effect - Claude Monet - full view
The Parliament of London, fog effectClaude Monet · 1903 -1904
1903 - 1904Dating
81.3 × 92.4 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
56.135.6Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Westminster appears at the precise point where the fog becomes light

Monet places Parliament in the right half, leaving a vast expanse of empty mist to the left. The Victoria Tower, taller and denser, serves as a vertical anchor; the secondary towers and pinnacles group together lower down, without windows or stone details. The silhouette is read by variations of blue, green and purple rather than a continuous outline.

The warmest color is concentrated near the right edge: a muffled orange crosses the sky and extends into the water. On the left, a small plant mass and a triangular sail give depth. The central boat, reduced to a dark shape and its reflection, measures the immensity of the atmosphere.

The monumental subject occupies less space than the fog: the true architecture of the painting is made of air densities, from bluish gray to luminous orange.

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 The Parliament of London, fog effect - Claude Monet
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A silhouette concentrated on the right

Parliament does not close the composition. Its vertical group lets the left two-thirds breathe, where thin layers and opaque repeats give the fog an active depth.

02

The Victoria Tower built without hard drawing

The deepest blues are found in the heart of the tower. Its edges host green gray, purple and brown, so the building appears both solid and air-absorbed.

03

A discreet but decisive orange

The warm area behind the towers balances the entire cold range. Faithful reproduction must retain this veiled orange, without saturating it or transforming it into a clear sunset.

Details and visual documents

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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 blue towers in the orange glow - detail from The Parliament of London, fog effect - Claude Monet
The blue towers in the orange glowThe close-up shows that the silhouette is never uniform: petrol blue, dark green, purple and brown overlap, while orange passes into the intervals between the pinnacles.
The boat and the almost erased reflections - detail from The Parliament of London, fog effect - Claude Monet
The boat and the almost erased reflectionsIn the Thames, the boat and its reflection form one of the rare frank contrasts. Around them, gray, blue, green and mauve are placed in horizontal touches very close in value.

The main view measures 2200 × 1946 px. The details of 1120 × 1200 px and 1500 × 760 px are direct cropping of this same version of the Met. No artificial enlargement has been applied; all three files are real WebPs.

Documented benchmarks

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

Identification01

Inventory 56.135.6 of the Metropolitan Museum

The Met dates this oil on canvas from 1903 -1904 and gives dimensions of 81.3 × 92.4 cm. The work entered the collection through the bequest of Julia W. Emmons in 1956.

London series02

Parliament observed from Saint Thomas's Hospital

Between 1899 and 1901, Monet painted Westminster from across the River Thames at Saint Thomas's Hospital. The views of Waterloo and Charing Cross are prepared from the Savoy Hotel.

Serial work03

Paintings taken together until 1903

Monet retained his views of London in his studio in Giverny and developed them simultaneously. In 1904, this version was part of the set of thirty-seven London paintings presented at Durand-Ruel in Paris.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The vast fog left almost empty on the left
  • The dense Victoria Tower but without mechanical edge
  • The orange glow held under a gray-green veil
  • The small boat and its dark reflection in the foreground

Work sheet

Title The Parliament of London, fog effect
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1903 - 1904
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81.3 × 92.4 cm
Orientation Almost square
Conservation Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
Inventory 56.135.6
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A palette designed with the room

The almost square format and the petrol blue, gray green and smoky orange range create a calm presence. This reproduction matches linen, sage, warm gray or midnight blue walls, with walnut, patinated brass or a matte black frame.

The Parliament of London, fog effect, painted for your interior

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