Houses of Parliament series _{(Claude Monet, Impressionism)}

Claude Monet painted a series of oil paintings of the Houses of Parliament (also known as the Westminster Palace) , home of the British Parliament, in the fall of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London. All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames.

In previous Series paintings, Rouen Cathedral, Monet showed the effect light and the atmosphere has on objects. While the Parliament series has the building, Westminster Palace is so distorted and obscured by the fog and smog that it becomes secondary as the subject. For the Parliament series, we are not just seeing the effect of light on objects we see, Monet is showing the effect of light on the atmosphere itself.

Below are some selected paintings of this series.

• Houses of Parliament in the Fog





• Houses of Parliament, Effect of Fog





• Houses of Parliament, London 1





• Houses of Parliament, London 2





• Houses of Parliament, Seagulls





• Houses of Parliament, Soleil Couchant





• Houses of Parliament, Stormy Day





• Houses of Parliament, Stormy Sky





• Houses of Parliament, Sun Breaking Through the Fog





• Houses of Parliament, Sunset

Monet's Other Works