1title: Music in the Tuileries.
artist: Édouard Manet
date: 1862
medium: technique oil canvas
dimensions: Size cm 76.2 118.1
current location: Institution:National Gallery, London
source: [link National Gallery, London]
credit: National Gallery, London
description: This painting of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris was Manet's first major work depicting modern city life. The band is playing and a fashionable crowd has gathered to listen. The picture includes portraits of Manet's friends and family. These include Manet himself as well as: Baudelaire - poet (1821 - 1867); Théophile Gautier - poet and novelist (1811 - 1872); Ignace Fantin-Latour - flower-painter (1836 - 1904); Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) - composer; Eugène - the artist's brother (1833 - 1892).
license:Public domain
title: Claude Monet, The Gare St Lazare, 1877
artist: Claude Monet
date: 1877
medium: Oil on canvas
dimensions: Size cm 54.3 73.6
current location: Institution:National Gallery, London
source: [link National Gallery, London]
credit: National Gallery, London
description: After his return to France from London, Monet lived from 1871-78 at Argenteuil, on the Seine near Paris. In January 1877 he rented a small flat and a studio near the Gare St-Lazare, and in the third impressionist exhibition which opened in April of that year, he exhibited seven canvases of the railway station.
This painting is one of four surviving canvases representing the interior of the station. Trains and railways had been depicted in earlier impressionist works (and by Turner in his 'Rain, Steam and Speed'), but were not generally regarded as aesthetically palatable subjects.
Monet's exceptional views of the Gare St-Lazare resemble interior landscapes, with smoke from the engines creating the same effect as clouds in the sky. Swift brushstrokes indicate the gleaming engines to the right and the crowd of passengers on the platform.license:Public domain
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