
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000753Charing Cross Bridge, London
by Claude Monet
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 1901
Provenance
The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 30, 1905, for 8,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1901–13 (no. 8018, as Londres, Charing Cross Bridge, soleil couchant, 1901), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Adrien Hébrard, as agent for the Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram), Paris, Dec. 20, 1905, for 15,000 francs; sold back to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Apr. 4, 1914, for 15,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1913–21 (no. 10528, as Londres, Charing Cross Bridge, soleil couchant, 1901), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 11 or Dec. 9, 1915; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Feb. 23, 1916, for a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir [Pivoines, no. 3094], plus $1,000 [per purchase receipt on Durand-Ruel letterhead, dated February 23, 1916, details that this painting (no. 3898, Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, 1901, Soleil couchant) was acquired by M. A. Ryerson, in exchange for a painting by Renoir (no. 3094, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pivoines) in addition to a cash payment of $1,000, photocopy in curatorial object file; see also Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904–24 (no. 3898, as Londres, Charing Cross Bridge, soleil couchant, 1901), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
University of Chicago, Classics Building, The Quarter-Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago, Paintings of the French Impressionist School, June 21–Sept. 1, 1916, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 294. Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 212. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 102 (ill.). Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The Impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 63 (ill.); Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986. Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 19 (ill.); Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 85 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 68.
Publications
M. C., “Monets in the Art Institute,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, 2 (Feb. 1925), pp. 20 (ill.), 21. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, 3rd ed., exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 43, cat. 294. Daniel Catton Rich, “Französische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon: Monatsschrift für freunde und sammler der kunst 11, 3 (Mar. 1933), p. 77. Translated by C. C. H. Drechsel as “French Impressionists in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Pantheon/Cicerone (Mar. 1933), p. 18. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), p. 37, cat. 212. Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet: En konstnärshistorik (Bonniers, 1948), p. 287. Art Institute of Chicago, “Catalogue,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 34. William C. Seitz, Claude Monet, Library of Great Painters (Abrams, 1960), p. 40, fig. 52. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 321. Grace Seiberling, “The Evolution of an Impressionist,” in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 36. Susan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p.159, cat. 102 (ill.). A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 58, cat. 3A9; microfiche 3, no. 3A9 (ill.). Grace Seiberling, Monet’s Series (Garland, 1981), p. 370, no. 3. Art Institute of Chicago, Seibu Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and Fukuoka Art Museum, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The Impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Nippon Television Network, 1985), pp. 124, cat. 63 (ill.); 125 (detail); 160–61 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 4, Peintures, 1899–1926 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1985), pp. 160; 161, cat. 1527 (ill.); 431, pièce justificative 275. Richard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1987), pp. 91, 93 (ill.), 118. Grace Seiberling, Monet in London, exh. cat. (High Museum of Art/University of Washington Press, 1988), pp. 49; 78, fig. 59. Art Institute of Chicago and Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994), pp. 80–81, cat. 19 (ill.). Eric Shanes, Impressionist London (Abbeville, 1994), pp. 125, pl. 101; 127. Charles F. Stuckey, “Chicago’s Fortune: Patrons of Modern Paintings and The Art Institute of Chicago,” in Art Institute of Chicago and Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994), p. 18. Andrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 56; 57; 65; 100, pl. 29; 109. Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné/Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Nos. 969–1595 (Taschen/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), pp. 655–56, cat. 1527 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills, 2000), p. 157 (ill.). Ann Sumner, with contributions by Louisa Briggs and Julia Carver, Colour and Light: Fifty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works at the National Museum of Wales (National Museum of Wales, 2005), pp. 20 (ill.), 90 (ill.), 91. John E. Thornes and Gemma Metherell, “The Art and Science of London’s Atmosphere around 1900,” in London’s Environment: Prospects for a Sustainable City, ed. Julian Hunt (Imperial College Press, 2005), p. 119. Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), pp. 166–67, cat. 85 (ill.). Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 166–67, cat. 85 (ill.). “Cat. 40: Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901” in Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https://publications.artic.edu/monet/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/135470. Gloria Groom, et. al. Monet and Chicago, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 2020), 31, 112 cat. 68, 139.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65 × 92.2 cm (25 5/8 × 36 5/16 in.); Framed: 87 × 113.1 × 11.2 cm (34 1/4 × 44 1/2 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1150
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