Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare

Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare

Monet, ‘The Gare Saint-Lazare’ is one of twelve paintings with the same subject. The rather special painting technique is described in the following text.

Monet, Irises

Monet, Irises

The large painting on luminous ground was painted with thick brush strokes. Monet’s palette is characteristic of this late period and contains pigments such as cobalt blue, cobalt violet, viridian, cadmium yellow and cadmium orange.

Monet, Water-Lilies

Monet, Water-Lilies

The very large painting is one of the many variations of the water-lily pond theme where Monet mostly employed single pigments.