Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil
Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1874Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
21 3/8 x 28 7/8 inches (54.3 x 73.3 cm) Frame: 33 3/4 × 41 3/8 × 5 inches (85.7 × 105.1 × 12.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
Cat. 1050Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1874Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
21 3/8 x 28 7/8 inches (54.3 x 73.3 cm) Frame: 33 3/4 × 41 3/8 × 5 inches (85.7 × 105.1 × 12.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:Cat. 1050Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
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In 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.
