Gare Saint-Lazare (Monet series)

After working on rural landscapes, Claude Monet returned to Paris in 1877 and made a dozen oil paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris. This was Monet's first series of paintings concentrating on a single theme.

Illustration of the Gare Saint-Lazare in 1868

After considering working at the Gare du Nord, he sought permission from the director of the Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Ouest to paint en plein air, at the Gare Saint-Lazare.

The Impressionist paintings capture the smoky interior of this Paris railway station, in varied atmospheric conditions and from various points of view. The works were in part a response to the criticism of his painting Impression, Sunrise, which was exhibited at the First Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874, and also fashionable depictions of technical progress: the modern steam train and the newly extended iron and glass train shed at the station constructed by engineer Eugène Flachat.

Eight of the paintings were exhibited at the Third Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in April 1877, where they were admired by Émile Zola, who later wrote his 1890 novel La Bête humaine about the railways.

Examples of the works are held by many public collections.

List
Title Museum City Country Dimensions (cm)
(in)		 #[1] Illus.
La Gare Saint-Lazare Musée d'Orsay[2] Paris France 75 cm × 105 cm
30 in × 41 in		 W438
La Gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d'un train Fogg Art Museum[3] Cambridge United States 81.9 cm × 101 cm
32.2 in × 39.8 in		 W439
La Gare Saint-Lazare, le train de Normandie Chicago Institute of Art[4] Chicago United States 59.6 cm × 80.2 cm
23.5 in × 31.6 in		 W440
La Gare Saint-Lazare National Gallery[5] London UK 53 cm × 72 cm
21 in × 28 in		 W441
Le Pont de l'Europe, gare Saint-Lazare Musée Marmottan Monet Paris France 64 cm × 81 cm
25 in × 32 in		 W442
Extérieur de la gare Saint-Lazare, effet de soleil Private collection 60 cm × 81 cm
24 in × 32 in		 W443
Extérieur de la gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d'un train Private collection 60 cm × 72 cm
24 in × 28 in		 W444
Les Voies à la sortie de la gare Saint-Lazare Pola Museum of Art Hakone Japan 60 cm × 80 cm
24 in × 31 in		 W445
La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure Private collection 60 cm × 80 cm
24 in × 31 in		 W446
La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure Private collection 64 cm × 81 cm
25 in × 32 in		 W447
La Gare Saint-Lazare, les signaux Lower Saxony State Museum Hannover Germany 65 cm × 81 cm
26 in × 32 in		 W448
La Tranchée des Batignolles Würth Collection Rome Italy 38 cm × 46 cm
15 in × 18 in		 W449

References
  1. 1996, Daniel Wildenstein, Catalogue raisonné
  2. "La Gare Saint-Lazare". Musée d'Orsay.
  3. "Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train, 1877". Harvard/Fogg Art Museum.
  4. "Claude Monet, Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877". Chicago Institute of Art.
  5. "The Gare St-Lazare, 1877, Claude Monet". National Gallery. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
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