Claude Monet
Charing Cross Bridge, Reflections on the Thames
1898-1903
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Claude Monet
Charing Cross Bridge, Reflections on the Thames
1898-1903
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 34 1/4 × 48 × 3 5/8 in. (87 × 121.9 × 9.2 cm.)
Unframed: 25 5/8 × 39 1/2 in. (65.1 × 100.3 cm.)
Credit Line
The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection
Object Number
1945.94
Claude Monet produced about 35 paintings of Charing Cross Bridge in London. Here, he shows the River Thames on a sunny morning when the sky’s relative clarity allows for the depiction of Westminster Bridge, and even the suspension bridge at Lambeth. Sunlight and its reflection on the Thames, created with yellows, blues, and greens, dominate the composition; the bright palette distinguishes this painting from Monet’s other views of the same motif.
Publication References
G.R., "BMA News," Oct. 1947, p. 1-3, repro. on cover
Rosenthal, Gertrude. Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture: [Exhibition] April Fifteenth to May Twenty-Third, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Eight. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1948, cat. no. 112, page 44.
"A Picture Book," BMA, 1955, illus. on p. 56.
Museum of Modern Art, "Claude Monet: Seasons & Moments," Los Angeles Co. Museum, Cat. No. 77, p. 62 repr. p. 36.
"New York Times," March 13, 1960, p. X13, repro. X13.
Art Association of Indianapolis Annual Report 1965, "Monet's Views of the Thames," p. 45, repr. fig. 1.
K. R. Greenfield, "The Museum: It's First Half Century," Annual I, BMA, 1966, repr. p. 101.
Department of the Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University, NY, in cooperation with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971, repro. in black and white p. 29 (illustrations).
Washington Co. Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, "40th Anniversary Exhibition," illus. black and white, 1971.
Arts Council of Great Britain, "Impressionists in London," Hayward Gallery, ill. black and white, #6, p. 40, 1973.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., "Claude Monet," (exhibition catalogue), 1976, ill. in color, full page, 1976.
Grace Seiberling, "Monet in London," High Museum of Art, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1988. Catalogue #4, Figure 31.
Richard Kendall, ed., "Monet by Himself," Macdonald Orbis, London, 1989, ill. 227.
Daniel Wildenstein, "Claude Monet Biographie et catalogue raisonné," Tome IV: 1899-1926, Lausanne-Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1985, #1532, p. 162, ill. p. 163.
Spectrum, August 1990, ill. p. 11.
Odyssey; Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies, Spring/Summer 1994 Liberal Arts Programs for Adults. ill.
Daniel Wildenstein, "Monet Catalog Raisonné Vol. III," Koln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag 1996, no. 1532, p. 660-661, ill. p. 661.
BMA Today, Winter 2005-2006, ill. cover.
Kimberly Meisten, "BSO Explorer Series," Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (Spring 2006), ill. p. 13.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Annual Report, 2006, no. 6, ill.
'60 Objects Countless Stories,' "BMA Today," Winter 2008-2009, pp. 6-7, ill. p. 6.
BMA Today, Spring 2009, p. 14, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
Fonsmark, Anne-Birgitte. Monet: Beyond Impressionism. Copenhagen: Ordrupgaard, 2016.
Thomson, Richard. Monet and Architecture. London: National Gallery Company, 2018.
Daneo, Angelica, Christoph Heinrich, Michael Philipp, and Ortrud Westheider, eds. Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2019.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1945; Helen (Mrs. Abram) Eisenberg, Baltimore, 1933; possibly Abram Eisenberg, Baltimore
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Inscribed: Recto: Bottom right in dark paint, Claude Monet