Claude Monet
1904
Oil on canvas
81 x 92 cm
The success of the 1904 exhibition in Paris emboldened Claude Monet to make plans to show the series in London the following year. Unable to borrow back enough sold paintings from the original series, he set about completing unfinished canvases left in his studio. These, he hoped, would be ‘as good as the other ones, if not better’. In the end, Monet couldn’t complete enough paintings to his liking and the London exhibition never took place. This is one of the works he made for that unrealised show. In it, he returned to a light effect he particularly liked and had used in a view of the Houses of Parliament in the 1904 exhibition (no. 16 in this room).