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TitleGare Saint-Lazare

Creator nameMonet, Claude

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions54.3 × 73.6 cm

LocationNational Gallery, London

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-monet-the-gare-st-lazare

Accession numberNG6479

SubjectsImpressionism (Art)--FranceRailroad stations in artPainting, French--19th century

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4. Standard Time: Monet at Gare Saint-Lazare

André Dombrowski

Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time

For Claude Monet, a life governed by a strict schedule and the absolute surrender to a truly anarchic succession of pictorial instants were two sides of the same coin.This chapter is a revised version of André Dombrowski, “Impressionism and the...

Author

André Dombrowski

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.113-147

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32173&redirecttoanchor=23768

Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryRailroads in art--France--19th centuryGare Saint-Lazare (Paris, France)Zola, Émile, 1840-1902Painting, French--19th centuryClocks and watches--France--19th centuryArt and technology--France--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th century

Chapter Nine: The Palette, from Tonal to Spectral

Anthea Callen

The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity

In the late 1850s and 1860s, heightened tonal values in the rendering of plein air effects were primarily associated with the peinture grise or argentée of Corot and the blond palette and luminous skies of Boudin...

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Anthea Callen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.136-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00125.012

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--FrancePainting, French--19th centuryPlein air paintingPainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryArtists' materials--France--19th centuryPainting--Conservation and restorationMonet, Claude, 1840-1926Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903

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