Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather
Claude Monet
1900
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.4 × 92.6 cm (25 3/4 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 110.5 × 10.2 cm (34 × 43 1/2 × 4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
103139
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...