Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris (La Gare Saint-Lazare), c. 1877 by Claude Monet

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, painted by Claude Monet in 1877, looks out from beneath the station's iron footbridge onto the surrounding street, where two steam locomotives send billowing white smoke into the pale sky as gas lamps and pedestrians line the pavement below. Monet painted the station on site with special permission from the railway company, producing twelve canvases that form his first sustained series devoted to a single subject. This exterior view sets the industrial machinery of the terminus against the ordinary rhythm of Parisian street life just beyond its walls.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1877.

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris (La Gare Saint-Lazare), 1877 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Steam and Light Canvas Print.