Monet visited London several times after 1871. He created many fine works during his three trips in 1899, 1900 and 1901. Setting up his easel on the balcony of the Savoy Hotel that faces the Thames River, Monet painted works that combined the three motifs of the Waterloo Bridge, Parliament and Charing Cross Bridge. This painting is one of this series of works. Caught in a diagonal bird's eye view, the Waterloo Bridge is shown in a slightly reddish palette, with the figures and horses crossing it seeming to float against London's trademark fog. The light faintly shining from the surface of the water is diffused by the vague fog before the object of the bridge which definitively recreates a three dimensional space. The hard compositional element of the bridge is almost completely obscured, and its shape is only slightly visible in the pigments that reflect light. The NMWA collections also contain a painting by Monet of Charing Cross Bridge in London. (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no.77)
- Title: Waterloo Bridge in London
- Creator Lifespan: 1840 - 1926
- Creator Nationality: French
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Giverny
- Creator Birth Place: Paris
- Date Created: 1902
- Location Created: France
- Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 1902
- Provenance: Kojiro Matsukata; Sequestered by the French Government, 1944; Returned to Japan, 1959.
- Physical Dimensions: w1005 x h657 mm
- Painter: Claude Monet
- Object title (Japanese): ウォータールー橋、ロンドン
- Object notes (Japanese): モネは1871年以来、ロンドンを数度にわたって訪れている。その中でも、1899年、1900年、1901年の三回の滞在は豊かな収穫をもたらした。テームズ河畔のサヴォイ・ホテルのバルコニーに画架を据えて、モネは、国会議事堂、ウォータールー橋、チャーリング・クロス橋という三つのモティーフに焦点を合わせて描き続けた。この作品もそのような連作のうちの一点である。斜めに俯瞰構図で描かれたウォータールー橋は、僅かに赤味を帯びた色彩で描かれ、橋の上の通行人や馬車がロンドン特有の霧を背景に浮かびあがる。三次元的な空間再現を断念せしめるような対象を前に、他の作品同様、彼の関心は、朦朧とした霧の中で拡散し水面を微かに照らし出す光に向けられている。堅固な構築物としての橋はここではほとんど消え去り、反映する光がもたらす色彩だけが僅かに橋の姿を留めている。当館は他に、同じくロンドンのチャーリング・クロス橋を描いた作品も所蔵している。（出典: 国立西洋美術館名作選. 東京, 国立西洋美術館, 2006. cat. no. 77）
- Artist Name (Japanese): モネ、クロード
- Type: Paintings
- Rights: Matsukata Collection, http://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/information/privacy.html
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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