European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil Made in France, Europe1874 Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926 Oil on canvas Currently not on view Cat. 1050 John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 |
LabelIn the 1860s and 1870s Monet, like his Impressionist colleagues, often depicted industrial France. Here, a train crosses a newly constructed iron bridge on the outskirts of Paris. In his later landscape paintings such evidence of the modern world is almost completely omitted. |
