Houses of Parliament series (Monet)

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Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stay in London. The paintings have all the same size and viewpoint^[1], Monet's window at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames.^[2] They are however painted at different times of the day and at different weather circumstances.

By now he had abandoned his earlier working practice of completing a painting on the spot in front of the motif. He carried on refining the images back in France, and sent to London for photographs to help in this. This caused some adverse reaction, but Monet's reply was that his means of creating a work was his own business, and it was up to the viewer to judge the final result.

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Some of the paintings in the London Parliament series.

Houses of Parliament, London, 1900-1901 The Art Institute of Chicago	Parlement, coucher du soleil (sunset), 1902	Le Parlement, Effet de Brouillard, 1903	Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant, 1903
Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904, Musée d'Orsay, Paris	Houses of Parliament, London, Musée Marmottan Monet c.1904	Houses of Parliament, London, Palace of Fine-Arts, Lille, France c.1904	Photograph of the Houses of Parliament from London Eye