Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil

Gallery 252, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Toll Gallery)

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Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil

1873

Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926

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....

Gallery 252, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Toll Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil

Date:

1873

Artist:

Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

21 3/8 × 28 7/8 inches (54.3 × 73.3 cm) Framed: 33 3/4 inches × 41 3/8 inches × 5 inches (85.7 × 105.1 × 12.7 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 1050

Geography:

Made in France, Europe

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Gallery 252, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Toll Gallery)

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