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La Tamise en aval de Westminster W166 par Claude Monet, vers 1871, National Gallery de Londres
  • La Tamise en aval de Westminster W166 par Claude Monet, vers 1871, National Gallery de Londres
  • La Tamise en aval de Westminster W166 par Claude Monet, vers 1871, National Gallery de Londres
The Thames downstream from Westminster W166 - Claude Monet

The Thames downstream from Westminster W166 - Claude Monet

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Claude Monet · London in the fog around 1871 · National Gallery

The Thames downstream from Westminster W166hand painted reproduction

Westminster appears behind a pinkish-gray mist, on the other side of a Thames streaked with reflections. The bridge cuts the horizon, the towers of Parliament emerge like a storybook silhouette and a wooden pier advances from the right. Monet thus brings together a modern city, a river of work and a light capable of softening all architecture.

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The Thames downstream from Westminster W166Claude Monet · Around 1871
Around 1871Dating
47 × 73 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
NG6399 · Wildenstein 166Inventory
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The fog connects Parliament, the bridge and the river

The silhouette of the Palace of Westminster occupies the center, but it never stands out clearly from the sky. Monet slightly enlarges his towers and simplifies his details to make a vertical landmark. To the left, the lower building of St. Thomas Hospital closes the bank; in the distance, Westminster Bridge establishes a long, almost continuous horizontal line.

In the foreground, water is more material than the sky. Small touches of blue, brown, gray and cream describe the waves and discontinuous reflections. Steam tugs progress near the bridge while, on the right, the piles and sleepers of the pier form a dark and stable framework.

The city is not erased by fog: its horizontals and verticals remain strong enough to organize the entire 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.

01

A frame hidden in the mist

The bridge, quay and horizon produce horizontal lines; towers, chimneys and piles oppose them with verticals. This structure prevents gray tones from becoming undecided.

02

Two brush writings

The sky is rubbed by long flexible passages which superimpose light and steam. The water receives broken, shorter and contrasting touches, capable of reflecting the lapping.

03

A depth constructed by temperature

The browns and blacks of the pier advance towards the viewer. Roses, blue grays and pale yellows move the Parliament away and give the fog its width.

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The unique reference corresponds to the National Gallery's NG6399 inventory. The public domain file measures 3,000 × 1,929 px; it is kept at its native definition, without enlargement, then encoded in WebP.

Composition01

A Parliament placed in the center without dominating

The towers extend beyond the bridge but remain enveloped by the sky. Their irregular outline must remain readable without becoming a hard cut.

Color02

Grays crossed with pink and ocher

London's pollution and humidity do not form a monochrome veil. A pink light heats the sky, while the water mixes cold blues, cream and browns.

Matter03

A pier painted like a construction

Oblique beams and vertical piles are the darkest accents of the canvas. They give a firm foreground facing the dissolved architecture.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

The National Gallery keeps this 47 × 73 cm oil on canvas under inventory NG6399; the catalog raisonné identifies it as Wildenstein 166.

Stay01

Monet took refuge in London in 1870 -1871

Arriving in September 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet remained in the British capital until May 1871. He painted five urban views there, including this single representation of Parliament during this first stay.

Modernity02

A completely transformed London shore

Parliament had just been completed, Westminster Bridge had been rebuilt in 1862 and the Victoria Embankment was new. Saint-Thomas Hospital, visible on the left, would open in the summer of 1871.

Collection03

The legacy of Lord Astor of Hever

The painting passed through the merchant Arthur Tooth, who sold it in 1936 to JJ Astor. Having become Lord Astor of Hever, he bequeathed it to the National Gallery in 1971.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

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

  • Keep the bridge as a low, continuous line behind the boats.
  • Tint grays with pinks, pale yellows and blues without whitening the fog.
  • Differentiate long smears from the sky from broken touches of the Thames.
  • Maintain the pier stakes as the firmest contrast in the foreground.

Work sheet

Title The Thames downstream from Westminster W166
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date Around 1871
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 47 × 73 cm
Orientation Horizontal
Conservation National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Inventory NG6399 · Wildenstein 166
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the official notice - National Gallery - inventory NG6399

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

Its panoramic format and pinkish grays are suitable for a living room, office or bedroom with natural materials. A soft black, smoked oak or patinated silver frame supports the pier without hardening the atmosphere.

The Thames downstream from Westminster W166, painted for your interior

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