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Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant de Claude Monet – National Gallery of Art 1963.10.48
  • Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant de Claude Monet – National Gallery of Art 1963.10.48
  • Détail des tours bleues du Parlement dans le ciel rose et jaune du couchant
  • Détail de la barque et des reflets rose, orange et bleu sur la Tamise
  • Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant de Claude Monet – National Gallery of Art 1963.10.48
  • Détail des tours bleues du Parlement dans le ciel rose et jaune du couchant
  • Détail de la barque et des reflets rose, orange et bleu sur la Tamise
The Parliament of London, setting sun - Claude Monet

The Parliament of London, setting sun - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · 1903 · National Gallery of Art · Wildenstein 1598

The Parliament of London, setting sunhand painted reproduction

The towers of Parliament form a large azure blue silhouette in front of a pink, yellow and lavender sky; on the Thames, an olive boat passes through short reflections where the sunset fragments into touches of coral and orange.

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The Parliament of London, setting sunClaude Monet · 1903
1903Dating
81.3 × 92.5 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
1963.10.48Inventory
A real paintingThe canvas is painted, never printed.
Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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The warm sky turns Westminster into a blue silhouette

Victoria Tower dominates the left of the architectural group. Further to the right, the pinnacles and towers of the abbey create an irregular vertical rhythm. Monet draws neither windows nor stones: the buildings remain a mass of superimposed blues whose edges dissolve in the sky.

The sky mixes pale yellow, peach pink, mauve and small touches of lemon. The water takes on these colors in shorter, more horizontal lines. The small boat placed slightly to the right of the center breaks the symmetry of the reflections and introduces a human presence at the foot of the monument.

The sunset does not darken the scene: it contrasts cold architecture with a warm atmosphere, then brings the two together in their reflections on 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.

Analysis of The Parliament of London, setting sun - Claude Monet
01

The Victoria Tower as a vertical anchor

Its high and wide mass stabilizes the composition. However, its edges remain permeable to the pink and yellow of the sky, which avoids any monumental hardness.

02

A warm sky made of superimposed passages

Pink is never isolated: it slides towards peach, purple, yellow and blue. These transitions make the air vibrate around the towers.

03

A tiny boat in the center of the river

The olive sail and horizontal hull give an immediate scale to Westminster. Their dark reflection punctuates the large blue expanse of the water.

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 pink sky - detail from The Parliament of London, setting sun - Claude Monet
The blue towers in the pink skyThe cropping reveals different purples, greens and blues in a silhouette that appears united from afar. The yellows of the sky circulate to the edges of the towers.
The boat and the reflections of the sunset - detail from The Parliament of London, setting sun - Claude Monet
The boat and the reflections of the sunsetThe olive sail rests on a very low hull. Around it, touches of salmon pink, orange, turquoise and white break the blue surface of the Thames.

The official open access view reaches 4096 × 3618 px. Details of 2350 × 2200 px and 2700 × 1450 px are direct cropping, without oversampling. All three files are true high definition WebPs.

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 1963.10.48, Wildenstein 1598

This oil on canvas measures 81.3 × 92.5 cm. It is signed and dated lower right "Claude Monet 1903" and belongs to the Chester Dale Collection of the National Gallery of Art.

Exposure02

Number 29 at Durand-Ruel in 1904

Monet presents this version in the exhibition Views of the Thames in London organized in Paris by Durand-Ruel in 1904. It appears there under number 29 among the bridges and Parliaments of the series.

Provenance03

From Edmond Décap to the Chester Dale legacy

Durand-Ruel sold the painting to Edmond Décap in 1904. It then passed to Maurice Barret-Décap, was sold at the Hôtel Drouot in 1929, then purchased by Chester Dale, who bequeathed it to the museum in 1963.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • The Victoria Tower solid but without closed outline
  • Transitions from peach pink to yellow and lavender
  • Short, horizontal reflections in water
  • The small olive boat placed in front of the blue silhouette

Work sheet

Title The Parliament of London, setting sun
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1903
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81.3 × 92.5 cm
Orientation Almost square
Conservation National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
Inventory 1963.10.48
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - National Gallery of Art

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

The almost square format and the azure blue, pink and peach accord produce a soft but very present light. The canvas matches warm white, greige, midnight blue or powder pink walls and golden or dark wood frames.

The Parliament of London, setting sun, painted for your interior

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