Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Description

The impressionists loved capturing the modern beauty of Paris, including grand boulevards, new buildings, and marvels like iron bridges and train stations. Claude Monet’s “Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare” from the 1870s is a perfect example. This train station connected Paris to Normandy, where Monet had perfected his outdoor painting technique. He completed several paintings of the station for an 1877 exhibition.

Monet focused on the train shed’s glass-and-iron structure, blending the steam from trains with natural light. These paintings were the start of his habit of painting the same scene under different conditions. After this, Monet mostly painted landscapes.

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