Claude Monet - The London Parliament series

Painted between 1900 and 1904
Listed in Wildestein catalogue as W1599-W1614

W1600: Houses of Parliament, Westminster - Chicago Art Institute
W1601: Houses of Parliament - Atlanta High Museum
W1611: Houses of Parliament , fog effect - Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
W1608: Houses of Parliament , fog effect - Musée des Beaux Arts, Le Havre
W1612: Houses of Parliament, seagulls - Princeton University
W1613: Houses of Parliament, seagulls - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
W1598: Houses of Parliament, sunset - Washington National Gallery
W1597: Houses of Parliament, sunlight effect - Brooklin Museum of Art, New York
W1596: Houses of Parliament, effect of sunlight in the fog private collection
(sold at Christie's in 2004 for £ 11 millions)
W1606: Houses of Parliament, stormy sky - Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille
W1605: Houses of Parliament, reflection of the Thames - Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris
W1603: Houses of Parliament, sunset - private collection
(on loan at The National Gallery, London since 1999)
W1610: Houses of Parliament, effect of sunlight in the fog - Musée d'Orsay, Paris
W1607: Houses of Parliament, sunset - Kunsthaus, Zürich
W1609: Houses of Parliament, fog effect - Metropolitan Museum, New York
W1604: Houses of Parliament, sunset - private collection
W1602: Houses of Parliament, sunset - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld
W1599: Houses of Parliament, symphony in rose - private collection

NOTE: I couldn't find any information nor pictures of W1614, the 19th canvas in the Parliament series

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Monet
• Claude
• Paintings
• Impressionism
• Art
• Series
• London
• Parliament
• Westminster
• Thames
• Bach
• Prelude
• Well-Tempered
• Clavier

[TheDukeOfWaltham]

By the way, I've just found a picture of W1614 on Flickr—the photostream is 28433765@N07 and the file number is 4384753405 (you'll have to fill in the URL, as YouTube won't let me post a proper one).

[robbbert66]

@TheDukeOfWaltham: Great! I found it! Now I must build a new slideshow (hope a better one!). Thank you very much again.

[TheDukeOfWaltham]

@robbbert66: And I'd like to thank you in turn for helping me put my notes in order with your presentation (long story). And, most importantly, for giving me the opportunity to better approach Monet's own vision, of following a fixed location in its changes throughout the day and year thanks to the fleeting alliances of light, clouds and smoke... Something that one could never hope to re-capture without the Internet now, with the collection dispersed throughout the world.

[robbbert66]

@TheDukeOfWaltham: yes, you've understood perfectly what was my goal when I projected this short clip.

Monet himself expressed deep regret for none of his series beeing sold as a single work and kept united in a single place. That was one of the reasons that led him to conceive the projetc of the Great Decoration of Water Lilies in the Orangerie Museum. I've done something similar with the "Poplar" series [re-uploaded today in an improved version] and I'd like to try with other series (...

[robbbert66]

@TheDukeOfWaltham (I love in particular The Rouen Cathedral, the Grainstacks, the Morning on the Seine, the Water-Lily Pond with Japanes Bridge [1899 & 1900], and the marvelous 2nd series of 1907 Water Lilies).

It' s not an easy task because good reproduction of some of the paintings are impossible to find. Then I'd have to find a music taht fits the images and synchronize the whole thing. A very long and boring work for the soooo lazy person I am :-D

[TheDukeOfWaltham]

Very interesting video. Some research I have made, however, has led me to a discrepancy: could it be that W1605 and W1606 have been switched in the list above? W1605 is given here as the number for the painting at the Musée Marmottan Monet, but a couple of listings I have seen give the number for this work as W1606.

[robbbert66]

Hi, TheDukeOfWaltham and thanks for your comment. You're perfectly right, I swithced the catalogue numbers of the two paintings in the list. W1605 is the one at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille (the first one appearing in the sequence), and 1606 is the one at Marmottan. Sorry for the confusion and thank for your precise statement.

[tallorder9]

Does anyone else see a Turner influence here?

[TheDukeOfWaltham]

@robbbert66: I sympathise... I am something of a perfectionist and something of a procrastinator; as you can imagine, little ever gets done.

I am familiar with most of these series of paintings, though not to the same degree, I am sure. I assume that you are an admirer of Monet's work, and I have to say that I like his style as well, but what initially brought me here is the subject of this series: the Palace of Westminster itself. I guess different roads pass from the same places...

[TheDukeOfWaltham]

@robbbert66: I've just seen the Poplars video. Great job, and the music fit well with the theme. I do have a gripe, though: in both videos I found some of the transitions rather obtrusive. I'd have preferred to see those only where the point of view changes; given that many paintings show the exact same view, and often have identical dimensions, it might be better to have a smooth transition in those cases to emphasise this and allow one to see the differences better. But that's just my opinion.