Waterloo Bridge, London, at Sunset
Claude Monet
1904
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 65.5 × 92.7 cm (25 13/16 × 36 1/2 in.) framed: 84.46 × 111.13 × 8.89 cm (33 1/4 × 43 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1983.1.28
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...