The Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of a Train

If you visit our DailyArt Magazine this week, you will see that it is Paris week. Well, who doesn't love Paris (especially in beautiful Impressionist paintings) or at least the idea of Paris?  : D 

Claude Monet loved to paint in series. The Saint-Lazare train station, one of the biggest and most crowded in Paris at that time, at one point became his obsession. In most of the 12 paintings of the series, we see a deep sea of steam and smoke that envelop the canvas, the play of light filtered through the smoke of the train shed, and the locomotives that dominate the site. Monet exhibited between six and eight of the series at the Third Impressionist Exhibition of 1877, where they were among the most discussed paintings exhibited by any of the artists. 

If you would like to learn more about Monet's obsessions, check out our Course on Impressionism and our Impressionism Notebook.  : )

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