Harvard Art Museums > 1979.329: Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames Paintings Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames (Claude Monet) , 1979.329,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 21, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/222214. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Gallery Text Between 1899 and 1901, Monet visited London three times, for a total of more than seven months. He rented the same room on the sixth floor of the Savoy Hotel on the Victoria Embankment and painted the view from his window of south London and the Thames. The resultant works — more than a hundred paintings and twenty pastels — formed the largest series he had produced to that date. Here, as in other works, he layers blue, green, and pink tones on a cool backdrop, offering an atmospheric view of the riverfront. This oil was included in an exhibition of his views of the Thames at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris in 1904. René Gimpel, a prominent art dealer in Paris, visited Monet at his home years later and quoted him in his diary as having said: “I adore London; it’s a mass, a whole, and it’s so simple. But what I love more than anything in London is the fog.” Identification and Creation Object Number 1979.329 People Claude Monet, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1926 Giverny, France) Title Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames Other Titles Alternate Title: Charing Cross Bridge, Brouillard sur la Tamise Original Language Title: Le Soleil sur la Tamise à Londres, brouillard Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1903 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/222214 Location Location Level 2, Room 2700, European and American Art, 19th century, Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 73.7 x 92.4 cm (29 x 36 3/8 in.) frame: 90.5 x 109.9 x 7 cm (35 5/8 x 43 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: lower right: Claude Monet 1903 inscription: stretcher bar, blue chalk: Box / 4 inscription: stretcher bar, graphite: M29[?] / 128[?] / 6P.#2[?] inscription: stretcher bar, blue chalk: 9330 label: stretcher bar, cream label, inscribed in brown ink: Monet n. 11864 [Durand-Ruel Paris stock no.] / Le soleil sur la Tamise / à Londres / (Brouillard) / 1903 label: stretcher bar, cream label, inscribed in brown ink: Le Soleil sur la Tamise / à Londres Brouillard inscription: back of stretcher, upper right, pinkish-tan label, inscribed in brown ink: Monet [printed:] No. [inscribed:] 4813 [Durand-Ruel New York stock no.] / Le soleil s/ la Tamise / à Londres, Charing / Cross 1903 M4 inscription: back of stretcher, upper right, inscription on cloth tape in black ink: MONET, C. / 605.66 / Anonymous Loan stamp: Back of stretcher, right edge, black stencil: 30 inscription: back of frame, right edge, blue chalk: 6492 [double underline] label: back of frame, top, label with blue edges, inscribed in black ink: Cadre no. 3 inscription: back of frame, left edge, black ink: 6492[?] stamp: back of frame, black stamp on all four sides and stretcher bar: 30W Provenance Recorded Ownership History Claude Monet, sold; [to Bernheim-Jeune and Durand-Ruel, Paris, December 1920], transferred; to [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1923], sold; to Mrs. Henry C. Lyman (Elizabeth), January 1928, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Lyman Accession Year 1979 Object Number 1979.329 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Par Valentine Buvat, Turner, Whistler, Monet: Peindre l'essence des choses, Tate Modern, p. 21 Galeries Durand-Ruel, Claude Monet: Vues de la Tamise a Londres (1902-1904), exh. cat. (Paris, 1904), p. 9, cat. no. 7 Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet, sa vie et son oeuvre, G. Crès et Cie (Paris, France, 1924), p. 310 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et Catalogue Raisonné, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974 - 1991), vol. IV, p. 168, cat. no. 1554 Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 6, fig. 1, ill. (color) Jean C. Harris and Stephen Kern, Lasting Impressions: French and American Impressionism from New England Museums, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Springfield, MA, 1988), p. 19, cat. no. 11, repr. Grace Seiberling, Monet in London, exh. cat., High Museum of Art and University of Washington Press (Seattle, 1988) Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990) Eric Shanes, Impressionist London, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1994), p. 130-131, no. 105, repr. p. 130 Katharine A. Lochnan, Turner Whistler Monet: Impressionist Visions, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario, 2004), no. 73, repr. in color Claude Monet 1840-1926, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Musée d'Orsay (Paris, 2010), cat. no. 137, repr., p. 266, checklist p. 369 Greg Stone, Artful Business: 50 Lessons from Creative Geniuses (Boston, 2016), p. 30, ill. (color) Eight Art Events to get to this Month, Apollo (January 10, 2017), online feature, https://www.apollo-magazine.com/top-art-shows-january-2017, accessed May 5, 2017, repr. Ulf Küster, ed., Monet: Light, Shadow, and Reflection, exh. cat., Fondation Beyeler (Basel, 2017), cat. no. 124, repr. p. 124 Nancy Norwood, Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, exh. cat., RIT Press and Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, 2018), p. 82, repr. Karen Serres, Monet and London: Views of the Thames, exh. cat., The Courtauld Gallery (London, 2024), cat. no. 3, repr., pp. 98, 122 Exhibition History Claude Monet, Vues de la Tamise à Londres, 1902-1904, Durand-Ruel Paris, 05/09/1904 - 06/04/1904 Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, Durand-Ruel [New York], 01/04/1922 - 01/21/1922 Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 06/12/2004 - 09/12/2004; Grand Palais, Paris, 10/16/2004 - 01/16/2005; Tate Britain, London, 02/12/2005 - 05/15/2005 Claude Monet 1840-1926, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 09/22/2010 - 01/24/2011 Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 10/11/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 06/10/2024; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/14/2017 - 01/01/2050; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/03/2025 - 01/01/2050 Monet: Light, Shadow, and Reflection , Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, 01/22/2017 - 05/28/2017 Monet and London: Views of the Thames, Courtauld Institute of Art, 09/27/2024 - 01/19/2025 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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