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L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre et Charing Cross Bridge de Monet, 1899 – Le Caire W1543
  • L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre et Charing Cross Bridge de Monet, 1899 – Le Caire W1543
  • Détail de l’obélisque, du pont et des reflets dans Charing Cross Bridge W1543
  • Détail du Parlement dans la brume de L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre W1543
  • L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre et Charing Cross Bridge de Monet, 1899 – Le Caire W1543
  • Détail de l’obélisque, du pont et des reflets dans Charing Cross Bridge W1543
  • Détail du Parlement dans la brume de L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre W1543
Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge - Claude Monet

Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge - Claude Monet

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Artwork description

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Claude Monet · 1899 · Cairo · Wildenstein 1543

Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridgehand painted reproduction

Cleopatra's obelisk stands in front of Charing Cross Bridge in a lavender blue mist. Parliament fades into the distance, arches pass through the composition and pink and purple reflections stretch the monuments in the Thames.

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Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge - Claude Monet - full view
Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross BridgeClaude Monet · 1899
1899Dating
73 × 100 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
Wildenstein 1543Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

The vertical obelisk responds to the long bridge and transforms the view of the Thames

Placed slightly to the left of the center, Cleopatra's Needle forms the sharpest vertical in the painting. It crosses the strip of the bridge then extends into the water. Around it, piers and boats are treated in much more diffuse blue and purple masses.

On the right, the Parliament and its tower are reduced to a purple silhouette in the mist. The river occupies the lower half and receives vertical reflections, immediately cut by horizontal touches of pink, blue and gray which maintain the movement of the surface.

Monet organizes London here around a simple and powerful contrast: the motionless tip of the obelisk facing an atmosphere where everything else seems to dissolve.

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 Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge - Claude Monet
01

The obelisk as the axis of the composition

The shape must remain more stable than the bridge and the Parliament, without becoming a black outline. Its verticality gives their measure to the horizontals of the Thames.

02

A bridge present by its intervals

Arches and piers alternate in a blue-purple range. Their readability depends on the fog spaces between the shapes more than on a detailed architectural drawing.

03

Vertical reflections constantly interrupted

Monuments descend into the water in colorful trails, then horizontal gestures break these lines. This crossed rhythm prevents any frozen mirror effect.

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 obelisk, the bridge and their reflections - detail of Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge - Claude Monet
The obelisk, the bridge and their reflectionsCropping brings the dark tip, purple piles and keys of the Thames closer together. The contrast of the obelisk must remain measured to retain the mist.
Parliament behind Charing Cross Bridge - detail of Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge - Claude Monet
Parliament behind Charing Cross BridgeOn the right, the monument blends into pale blues and purples. Its distant silhouette must remain less dense than the obelisk in the foreground.

The photograph of the exact version, taken at the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil museum and distributed under CC0 license, measures 735 × 542 px. The details of 540 × 360 px and 410 × 390 px are direct cropping. No files have been enlarged; all three images are real WebPs.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

These landmarks concern the Wildenstein 1543 version, identified by its title, its dating, its format and its conservation at the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil museum.

Identification01

The Wildenstein 1543 version

This oil on canvas measuring 73 × 100 cm is dated 1899 and signed lower right. The Wildenstein catalog distinguishes it by number 1543.

Conservation02

A work from the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil museum

The painting belongs to the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo. The reference photograph was taken in front of the work in the museum and allows this version to be precisely identified.

Monument03

Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment

The ancient obelisk was installed on the banks of the Thames in 1878. From the Savoy Hotel, its vertical is naturally in front of Charing Cross Bridge and becomes a recurring landmark of Monet's London views.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The exact Wildenstein 1543 version
  • The original format of 73 × 100 cm
  • The Obelisk as the main vertical
  • Parliament and the bridge kept in distinct degrees of mist

Work sheet

Title Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1899
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 73 × 100 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt
Inventory Wildenstein 1543
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
View documented image - Wikimedia Commons · photography at the museum

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

Lavender, gray blue, misty pink and deep purple give this reproduction an architectural elegance without coldness. It finds its place on a cream, pearl gray, smoked blue or plum wall, above a base unit.

Cleopatra's Needle and Charing Cross Bridge, painted for your interior

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