Gare Saint-Lazare - the arrival of the train

Date: 1877
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: private collection
Dimensions: 59.7 x 71.8

The painting is a vivid city scene, probably Paris, capturing a moment in everyday life with steam trains and people on the platform. Smoke plumes and city buildings can be seen in the background, while the foreground is dominated by the dynamic composition and blurred impression of movement typical of Impressionism. The colours are mutated with ochres and greys dominating.

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Monet painted picture Gare Saint-Lazare - the arrival of the train in 1877. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is landscape. Original size is 59.7 x 71.8. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926). A native Parisian, who thoroughly developed the idea of Impressionism. Monet almost scientifically studied the effect of light on different objects. He devoted himself to so called transitory states, which quickly led him to work with colour and light, his paintings acting on the viewer from the first impression. His use of open-air painting and objects which were special only because of light opened the way for the beginnings of modern painting. Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1874) not only gave the name to the whole art movement, but secured Monet a place among the best painters of all times. At one time, he resided in London and created his famous study Houses of Parliament (Monet wondered, How could the English painters paint Parliament when it cannot be seen for the fog?). In the Giverny, which became his favourite retreat after the death of his wife, he painted motifs from his garden and the popular series Water Lilies - the world of the water was as poetic and mysterious as a primordial paradise.