An arched bridge faintly materializes in a haze of soft turquoise blue and mint green in this horizontal landscape painting. The bridge has four arches under a flat deck, and it extends off each side of the canvas. Running across the middle of the composition, it angles slightly away from us to our right. The bridge is painted in strokes of slate blue and muted lavender purple, with darker shades on the shadowed undersides of the arches. Touches of rose pink and white along the deck suggest lights moving across the bridge. The water below is sky blue and seafoam green. A few vertical swipes…
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Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

1904

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65.7 × 101.6 cm (25 7/8 × 40 in.) ; framed: 84.46 × 120.02 × 10.16 cm (33 1/4 × 47 1/4 × 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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