Gare Saint-Lazare
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Gare Saint-Lazare is a series of oil paintings by the French artist Claude Monet. The paintings depict the smoky interior of the eponymous railway station in varied atmospheric conditions and from various points of view. The series contains twelve paintings, all created in 1877 in Paris. This was Monet's first series of paintings concentrating on a single theme.
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This Impressionist series was deeply influenced by modernization and industrialization in the nineteenth century, presenting a busy train station in different times of a day. Monet finished the Gare Saint-Lazare series in the first half of 1877 and exhibited seven of the twelve paintings at the Third Impressionist Exhibition in the same year. Today, the Gare Saint-Lazare paintings are scattered in institutions all over the world, including Musée d'Orsay, Fogg Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery, Musée Marmottan Monet, Pola Museum of Art, Lower Saxony State Museum, and other private collections.
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Image: Claude Monet; Wikimedia Commons · public domain