The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (Le Parlement, coucher de soleil), 1903 by Claude Monet

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (Le Parlement, coucher de soleil), painted by Claude Monet in 1903 dissolves the Gothic towers of Westminster into a violet silhouette against a blazing orange and gold sky reflected across the Thames. Monet painted the scene from a terrace at St Thomas’s Hospital, working from the same vantage point at different hours to record London’s famously shifting fog and light. It belongs to his celebrated London series of nearly a hundred canvases, first exhibited together at Durand-Ruel’s Paris gallery in 1904 to wide acclaim.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1903.

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (Le Parlement, coucher de soleil), 1903 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Cityscape Wall Art Canvas Print.